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Institutional, declare war, craft immigration policy, tax policy, investigate a president. what they have done essentially for decades is advocate legislative powers to the executive. >> you know, let me ask you, the reason nothing gets done is everything is so partisan, something we havent had in 200 years or so. if you were either mitch mcconnell or somebody in the white house, would you say, hey, lets break that and try to get some bipartisan votes? >> sure. >> why havent they done it. >> i t...

Waiver program, do better in the cyber domain and challenges congress to get off the sidelines an declare war. some people on the stage last night going after secretary clinton, they talk tough an they wont have a debate and do what congress is supposed to do to declare war against isil. youre not going to see that from secretary clinton. >> senator kaine, thank you for your time. >> you bet. next hour, each speaking live. well monitor those events. bring it to you live. and any minute now the...

President obama using his oval office speech on isis last night to call on congress to step up and authorize the use of force against this brutal terror group. >> if congress believes, as i do, that we are at war with isil, it should go ahead and vote to authorize the continued use of military force against these terrorists. for over a year, i have ordered our military to take thousands of air strikes against isil targets. i think its time for congress to vote to common straight that the america...

House have not introduced the declaration of war under the congressional or constitutional powers. >> so i have introduced authorization of the use of force. here is what it comes down to. the president is acting legally under existing fight against al qaeda. in iraq. >> why does he need that. >> good to wipe the slate clean and say here is for going after the islamic state. its a little different it takes a lot of iterations to say this is in essence al qaeda and allies. >> why not go to the cl...

Basically means ground troops and hamstring the next president that comes. in i hope its a republican. the next president that comes in will be hamstrung because of this amuf from doing what is going to be necessary to destroy isis. i wont vote for what the the president put forward and thats why congress has stalled. i put forward one that stripped the limitations out. people like duncan hunter, martha robey. carla. have a great team. pass that one and tell the president he can destroy isis. >>...

It isnt just children and babies. look at the people on the boats. every guy seems to be alone, a bachelor in his 20s. some of them should be willing to fight for their country if we are thinking about it. the american people want to send our troops from arkansas and louisiana to fight in a place they dont speak the language and dont belong there and we dont want the syrians to do their own fighting. >> this is where congress has the opportunity to lead. thats declare war. >> i dont know why we ...

Father were very tough on they were very tough on him. they had a very healthy sense of skepticism with regard to the pentagon and with regard to those who were calling for war and as you remember during the cuban missile crisis, the pentagon was saying we should bomb, we should bomb, we should bomb. if we had done that at the time we would have wiped out the entire city of miami. nobody was tougher on crew chef but they were very skeptical about going forward because they had both in the navy a...

As france and others are urging us to come onboard to stop genocide? >> the constitution has pretty clear instructions. if you want to get involved with a war, you ask the people through congress and theres a vote. we either declare war, initiate war or not. i asked the president this question directly. he came to our conference and i said, when you ran for office, you said that no president could unilaterally go to war without the approval of congress. unless there was an imminent danger. he sa...

>> i am not sure they are the last people to be telling us what to do. >> they were so wrong about it in the first place. it takes a lot to stand up there and tell us what to do when you were leading us into it. >> i take a lot of heat from some conservatives who think i have become too much like bob beckel. i am very conservative, far right conservative, but heres what i think. we purposefully went into iraq, we were attacked on our soil and let me tell you, there are saudis that were financed ...

Notion of americas policeman and whether or not this sense of caution around intervening in military conflicts elsewhere in the world is a reaction to 9/11 or whether that has been part of the american dna all along. >> well, i think we have been a reluctant warrior throughout our history. think about after world war i where we went in late as the dough boys and really decided that affair on the side of the allies. we were very hesitant to get into world war ii. then, of course, because of pearl...