After meeting with his national security team Wednesday, President Obama assured Americans that there's currently “no specific and credible intelligence indicating a plot on the homeland.”
After the attacks in Paris, Obama acknowledged, “It’s understandable that people worry something similar could happen here.” But he encouraged Americans to engage in their normal holiday routines.
“In the event of a specific credible threat, the public will be informed,” Obama said, speaking from the Roosevelt Room. “But otherwise Americans should go about their ususal Thanksgiving activities.”
Obama assured viewers that the military is both taking the fight to ISIS “where it lives” while U.S. officials are also doing “everything possible” to prevent domestic attacks and keep “foreign terrorist fighters from entering the United States or other nations.”
Currently, the State Department has issued an overseas travel warning for Americans traveling abroad that’s due to expire on February 24, 2016.