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Should have come to congress, he didnt, didnt get congressional approval i should say but president trump said, im not coming to congress, your thoughts? >> well, he also said back in 2013 that president obama should have gone to congress, in fact, put before congress an authorization use force, didnt go anywhere. i think that if president trump had come to congress with a very simple, i need to take out these chemical weapons, give me the authority to do it, he could have passed in half a nano ...

You feel as though the presidents hand has weakened? >> absolutely. here we are whether or not he should have authorization. leland: you say half a nano, why would you get that in half a nano second, im assuming you would have voted for it, but for president obama it didnt happen? >> he had a complex authorization use force, ground troops, intervention into the civil war. this would have been a very simple, apparently the entire purpose of it to take out the chemical weapons infrastructure, if t...

>> chris, as susan always says, we are in the radical middle. >> anything compromise driven could be radical now. let me put something else on your plate. theres talk about threat coming from north korea, and i am not saying its unfounded, and yet theres still foot dragging on an open debate and accountability for the authorization use of military force. general mattis went in there and he gave you a political opinion about whether you should have it or not. thats not how it works. you are not s...

World. weve known that. thats why were there along with some 4,000 french soldiers na the area to try to deal with this terrorism. with regard to the briefing, sometimes, we treat it like mushrooms. were kept in dark and your report on the ground from niger is in many ways much more detailed than we received this morning. >> is that frustrating to you? would you have expected to hear what you just heard from arwa damon reporting what she heard from nigerians? >> well, heres where our job, were n...

Actually violating both of those. what you have is really a need to go after that. and then youve got the authorization use of military force that president obama has been using for the past eight years. >> from 2001. >> right, since 2001, thats right. but in december 2016 the white house lawyers gave a brief that said this thing is still in effect and its still good. i imagine that was probably to cover president obama, but that doesnt mean it doesnt apply to president trump. >> but lawyers are...

Gained out of that? >> well, i think it was again a demonstration of the enormous capacity of this jsop tool to use intelligence, collected in a variety of ways along with an air force team to get people in and out of defended targets. it was a good thing. it worked brilliantly. im sure over the coming weeks they will exploit a massive a of information, where was the oil going out of turkey who was handling it, how is the money. so i think it was a first rate operation. but i think that what has...

Failed foreign policy presidents this country has had. i dont cheer that. i hope this turns around on a dime. i would love to see the president restore american leadership around the globe. i will be the first person cheering him on to do it but i havent seen the indication of that. martha: we know what the president requested in congress would not include any ground troops. you were in iraq fought in afghanistan i believe. you can correct me if im wrong on that. >> yes. martha: spoke with a for...

Alive. the concern about drugeon, he has the skills and knowledge on how on make bombs to potentially bypass airport security measures. the fact he is still alive causes a good deal of concern to u.s. officials. they also believe the leader of the group, a man named fattli is still alive after months of u.s. air strikes. this is a group of hard core al qaeda operatives that move from pakistan to syria over the last several years. it is a group that causes the u.s. great deal of concern because o...

Four to five ships in the mediterranean after congress says go ahead? i mean, the entire big picture whats happening here potentially, are you more comfortable with that if congress says go? >> certainly. thats the constitutional responsibility of the 535 members of congress, senate and house, that have that constitutional responsibility to declare war. and in fact, this is an act of war. we have done this in the past. it was done after 9/11 with the authorization use of force, it has been ignor...

Other members of congress who have been pushing for something to get rid of the old authorization use of military force. were going to see, i think in congressional action, whether, how that plays out. >> so you dont think he has a timeframe that, perhaps, limits, takes action within this second term, for example? >> oh, i think -- >> as an aspiration, hed like -- >> i would hope so. i think in the second term we will see -- >> when you heard him speaking about drone strikes, i was reminded of w...