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One option. and thats the option they felt would be the way that they could keep afghanistan stabilized and not lose everything that we have spent so much american blood and treasure on let. >> let me turn to the act. i have a problem with with defense bills i dont know how anybody comes up with the numbers. none the less its a bipartisan bill the president says he intends to veto it. will he? >> he says that he will and very disappointing to me his secretary of defense said that he agrees with ...

At the moment, the authorization bill makes no appropriations at all, as you well know, number one. number two, it attempts to evade the question of overall fiscal responsibility with the so-called oko gimmick, which is objectionable to me and to others in other agencies. and i think ought to be to the taxpayer and certainly to the war fighter. and then finally it contains other provisions also objectionable to me. and ill give you some examples. we have proposed for several years now changes --...

Transition is only going to fuel the opposition and therefore the extremism and the violence. >> tony? >> let me ask you, get you on the record on the national defense authorization, you laid out the budget consequences of sequestration and cr. are you going to recommend to the president to veto the bill to go to the floor tomorrow? >> i and other advisers already have and hes indicated if its presented to him in the form it appears it is going to be presented to him it is going to be vetoed. th...

Money the day after that wastq=x not lost on anyone watching. lets take a listen to what speaker boehner had to say about the bunding this week. >> raw goal going to ask such a stupid question? listen they started this yesterday and its all about funding. all about funding. obviously its not about funding. the train was going twice the speed limit. no money has been cut from rail safety and the house passed a bill earlier this week to reauthorize amtrak and authorize a lot of these programs. >> ...

>> there certainly is. my heart goes out to the families of those who were hurt and certainly those who died. look democrats are not -- we passed a authorization bill. we agreed we can authorize is the most x percent. its what the appropriators give you. now, amtrak said it needed two billion just for state of good repair, who are just keeping the train going. i am very concerned that were driving into a safety wreck, and i must say, it may be coincidence that the cut came today, but the cuts ha...

Activities with us precisely to deny them that narrative. >> reporter: what theyre talking about is that this will be different, different, they say, than the previous u.s.-led wars in iraq and afghanistan. this will be a coalition effort and will continue to be a coalition effort because if it did become solely a u.s. ground effort that would give isis that edge to recruit even more fighters because the view would be that its the u.s. again, invading, if you will, that part of the world. but is...

Issues. >> luke russert, thank you so much. i want to bring in wisconsin republican senator ron johnson, a member of both the foreign relations and homeland security committees. senator always good to see you, thanks for being with me this morning. secretary kerry is going to be testifying before your committee about the new authorization bill for the use of military force that luke was talking about there. in your opinion, what needs to be in that bill? >> well first of all, lets take a step ba...

Seek fresh congressional approval for that. weve been at war against iso now since august 8th without any congressional debate or vote and that vote is necessary to educate the american public about what is at stake in a foreign relations committee and we agreed to have a hearing with administration officials next week and then mark up an authorization bill that we will send to the senate floor. this will be the first public debate in congress now four plus months in to a war. its an important m...

That. so the house leadership wants to hear from its rank-and-file members who have been home over the thanks giving holiday obviously hearing from their constituents. im told if there is consensus on a response to president obama on immigration, that house majority leader kevin mccarthy reserved floor time. there could be debate and discussion of that on the house floor this week. for the fight against isis a number of lawmakers who want to vote authorizing the fight against isis. it is not cle...

Individuals that you ought to bargain for. >> one final question, senator, did the president break the law? >> well, what the president did was he certainly violated the law. now, his position is that the 30-day requirement that was contained not just in one law that we passed, but three laws that we passed, the 2012 intelligence authorization bill, the 2012 defense authorization bill, and the 2014 defense authorization bill, all contained a provision that required, and it was a very lengthy and...