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>> bill: how about for afghanistan. >> same in 2001. >> bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? >> right. >> bill: i stand corrected. >> right. and, look, our view was he didnt need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to -- is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was...

>> bill: bernie is an oracle. here is andrea mitchell, nbc. >> the problem the president has in projecting american values he first of all believes in multilateral policy. on that score he has really accomplished that. this was pretty remarkable bringing the coalition together and getting the arab league. >> bill: remarkable. >> am i a genius or what. >> bill: do you want genius. >> no, oracle is fine. >> bill: thats the spin. as kucinich said and i will get to him in a minute, unlike president ...

>> bill: how about for afghanistan. >> same in 2001. >> bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? >> right. >> bill: i stand corrected. >> right. and, look, our view was he didnt need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to -- is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was...

>> bill: bernie is an oracle. here is andrea mitchell, nbc. >> the problem the president has in projecting american values he first of all believes in multilateral policy. on that score he has really accomplished that. this was pretty remarkable bringing the coalition together and getting the arab league. >> bill: remarkable. >> am i a genius or what. >> bill: do you want genius. >> no, oracle is fine. >> bill: thats the spin. as kucinich said and i will get to him in a minute, unlike president ...

>> bill: how about for afghanistan. >> same in 2001. >> bill: he got resolutions to do everything across the board? >> right. >> bill: i stand corrected. >> right. and, look, our view was he didnt need to do it because while under article 1 section 8 the congress is given the authority to declare war, the president under article 2 section 1 is authorized to -- is designated first and foremost for the army and the militia. the president has certain powers as commander and chief. we thought it was...

His nuclear weapons and we can all thank our lucky stars now that he doesnt have nuclear weapons at the moment. therefore he would be an even great and menace than he is. at the moment we have this parallel of the attack on his compound which was done by the brits but would seem plainly to be an effort to kill the guy and, thereby, obviously get him out of power. >> bill: let me stop you there. so, thats true, what hume just told you is true and i told it to you too in the talking points memo. s...

His nuclear weapons and we can all thank our lucky stars now that he doesnt have nuclear weapons at the moment. therefore he would be an even great and menace than he is. at the moment we have this parallel of the attack on his compound which was done by the brits but would seem plainly to be an effort to kill the guy and, thereby, obviously get him out of power. >> bill: let me stop you there. so, thats true, what hume just told you is true and i told it to you too in the talking points memo. s...

Military attacks on qaddafis forces had nothing to do with regime change, no, no. regime change was going to be handled by a range of other measures that he said were in place to try to bring him down that the only purpose of these attacks is to prevent qaddafi from bringing about some terrible humanitarian calamity with savage attacks on the rebels around benghazi which he had threatened to do. that was the catalyst for the u.n. action and so on. so thats where he says we are. we have two disti...