Dan Lungren questions Paul Stockton - Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense: Are we at war with violent Islamist extremism?

Watch the verbal acrobatics. Let's go to the videotape.

(Carl) On Wednesday, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) opened a hearing to examine the emerging threat to the military from homegrown terrorists within the U.S. and named the armed services as the "most sought-after" target for radical Islamist extremist groups. Rep. Dan Lungren (R.-Calif.) asked Paul Stockton, assistant defense secretary for homeland defense, whether "we are at war with violent Islamist extremism." Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.