President Obama calls for unity in fight against ISIS

President Obama speaks as he and French President Francois Hollande hold a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House.
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During a Tuesday press conference with French President Francois Hollande, President Obama vowed to "do even more" to fight ISIS. "This was not only a strike against one of the world's great cities, it was an attack against the world itself," Obama said of the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris that left 130 dead. "As Americans, we stand by our friends in good times and in bad."

Obama urged the E.U. to adopt a version of a no-fly list, and he called on Americans to fulfill their "humanitarian duty to help desperate refugees" despite calls from the GOP to bar them from the U.S. for fear that terrorists could slip into the country with the flow of migrants. "We cannot, and we will not succumb to fear," Obama said. "For that's how terrorists win."

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