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Congressional declaration of war, or a congressional authorization for use of force, or if the united states is attacked. so in this situation, not unlike the libya operation in 2011, the administration got around that, saying the u.s. wasnt engaged in official hostilities. do you feel like its appropriate that the president has to reach out the you this go-around or take the libya model? >> its clear to me in an increasing number of my colleagues, as expressed in the letter that has doubled in ...

High expectations here? was anybody doomed to fail in setting or did he just screw it up worse than others might have? >> have come to the idea it might be a good idea for the chair to come together and say the state of the union response, its just not going to work for anybody. its an impossible format. i think there were some specific things, especially from the substantive standpoint that were really troublesome about rubios response last night. but in general, its an impossible setting. youv...

Was anybody doomed to fail in setting or did he just screw it up worse than others might have? >> have come to the idea it might be a good idea for the chair to come together and say the state of the union response, its just not going to work for anybody. its an impossible format. i think there were some specific things, especially from the substantive standpoint that were really troublesome about rubios response last night. but in general, its an impossible setting. youve got the president comi...

Now look at the tick tock of the entire day. the president, this morning at the event with the chamber of commerce and afl-cio calling for passage of a couple bills, some extensions of a couple bills in order to not harm is the economy deal with some job issues, he talked about the political gamesmanship must end, and then we proceeded to have a six-hour back and forth of political gamesmanship here. apparently what happened is when the white house made this request of speaker boehner and senate...

Night. >> it was kind of interesting, when you now look at the ticktock of the entire day. the president this morning at the event with the chamber of commerce and afl-cio calling for passage of a couple bills, some extensions of a couple bills in order to not harm is the economy deal with some job issues, he talked about the political gamesmanship must end, and then we proceeded to have a six-hour back and forth of political gamesmanship here. apparently what happened is when the white house ma...

Buckingham palace and then move on to the houses of parliament for an historic speech. this is the first time that a u.s. president has given a speech to both houses of parliament. house of commons and the house of lords in joint session. its supposed to be a pretty big speech. hes going to be talking about, according to the preview notes we have, a new dawn for the west. a new international order that the west, that means the u.s. and the u.k. and europe could lead the way for reforming democra...

Buzzing about the fact hes not going to be at the state of the union but stressing, hes not been there in the last ten years. >> reporter: some members of the supreme court, and this started under william rehnquist i think its been probably since 1972 when all nine justices came. william rehnquist used to publicly gumbel that supreme court justices and youve seen it in the tapes youve been playing have to sit there while the president makes all sorts -- any president makes all sorts of statement...

Shaking his head and saying thats not true. yesterday was the first time he spoke about the controversy. >> anybody can criticize the supreme court. i have no problems with that. to the extent the state of the union has did he generated into a political pep rally, im not sure why were there. >> supreme court justices are not required to attend the annual joint session. they have traditionally done so as a sign of mutual respect for president and congress. developing news regarding the weather....

Stunt? plus, the citizen cycle. >> you have a leaker backing a leaker. >> well try to sort out all the spin on the james comey memos. and later, joint session. >> ill be introducing ledges to decriminalize marijuana. >> the bipartisan push to solve a chronic problem. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now. ♪ good evening. welcome to "mtp daily" im chuck todd here in new york. the democrat national committee is making headlines today with what appears to be a political stunt straigh...

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