Making Unilateral News Today

Engagements, getting the facts out, youre a member of congress, the democrats control the house, you can pass if the leadership is behind it, right? you can attach some rider to the defense authorization act which is needed as part of the appropriations process for the entire military, right? >> absolutely. >> that says you cannot strike iran. is that the plan to pass that rider? do you have buy in for that? >> well, as you know, barbara lee is attached to the biggest appropriations bill. the au...

Use it to go into war without coming before congress. so a lot is going on. to try to make sure that we dont allow this president making unilateral decisions to go into war and strike iran, and we just think that any little incident could cause us to go in. we think hes not having the advice of advisers who would make sure that he does not bumble and stumble into war, he doesnt have anybody around him, he doesnt have a defense secretary. he doesnt have people -- mr. bolton and mr. pompeo, theyre...

Time the state department was involved that had an office that actually reviewed pardon decisions as a matter of policy process. what this president has done, which we have not seen in centuries literally, is the president making unilateral decisions, not just disregarding a recommendation that might be made from the office of the pardon after a justice department review, but absolutely 100% bypassing any of that policy process. so i think that he is looking toward ways to expand his presidency ...

Better. five months ago, the president was saying he did not think talks with north korea were the way to go. but with this invitation from kim jong-un, he certainly seems to have changed his mind here, fred. >> all right, the world will see if he can do it better. kaitlan collins, thank you so much, at the white house. lets talk more about this, joining me, reporter, editor at large of cnn politics, chris cillizza and cnn senior political reporter nia malika henderson. the chaos of this white...

First prescription free at mybreo.com aside from john boehners lawsuit against the president for unilateral changes to the health care law without congressional approval, the changes raise a second issue, the impact on taxpayers. >> theres another equally important question about the president making unilateral changes to obamacare whether the many changes and delays are robbing the revenue. >> were looking at a cost of about $200 billion a year. right now the savings that was projected to fay...

We dont need a broad based military to make this works he deserves credit for this. >> we reached the point where we are at war in libya and pakistan and congress doesnt seem to get involved. we trust this president. i think we all on this panel, chris wallace included say yes, he should have killed this man, he was a threat to the national security. where is the case, where is the standard, where is congress involvement saying yes, we are at war in libya. >> this is not the president making uni...

Military to make this works he deserves credit for this. >> we reached the point where we are at war in libya and pakistan and congress doesnt seem to get involved. we trust this president. i think we all on this panel, chris wallace included say yes, he should have killed this man, he was a threat to the national security. where is the case, where is the standard, where is congress involvement saying yes, we are at war in libya. >> this is not the president making unilateral decisions. there ar...

Some places, a great deal of progress. other places, theres still more work to be done. we talked about what the north koreans are continuing to do and how it is the case we can get our arms around achieving what chairman kim and president trump both agreed to, which was the complete denuclearization of north korea. theres no -- no one walked away from that. theyre still equally committed. we had productive, good-faith negotiations. >> north korea on the other hand feels exactly the opposite. in...