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Presidents choice to make. its up to congress to make the decision whether or not this country declares war. so ive been involved in leading the effort to -- not just against the war in libya. but in leading the effort that congress assumes its rightful position what the system of checks and balances is act vatd and the system of powers on the issue of war that our founders had a clear intention to enact and preserve it. >> as you well know, the u.s. hasnt -- congress hasnt officially declared w...

When i looked at that, i said, you know, i dont think this is what the founders had intend. i talked to other members of congress on both sides of the aisle. we decided that article one section eight needs to be enforced. that the congress dr our constituents are the ones that are asked to serve if theres a war. were directly elected. wed better have a say on these things. with america looking at the potential of expanding wars in pakistan and yemen, and somalia and sudan and god knows where els...

We should be right now joining china and other nations that are talking about the need for a political solution because there is a military solution in libya. >> well, youre absolutely right. the end game is always the final question here with any sort of war activity. thank you, congressman dennis kucinich. i know youre busy. ill let you get back to your work. lets turn to the huffington post, howard fineman who is an nbc political analyst here. howa howard, why did president obama go into liby...

Not engaged in hostilities under the 1973 what powers act. bipartisan high-powered senator, john kerry and john mccain. want to force it on her anyway. mccain ridiculed that the u.s. engagement is not hos siltys as a confusing breach of common sense by the commander and chief. >> i find out hard to swallow that killing enmy personnel in a foreign country and dropping bombs does not amount to state of hostility. >> each was vet nam veteran and they back president action if libya. they oppose effo...

When he saw it was necessary. why wont republicans even consider making the wealthy pay a little bit more? why are some people in the fbi so nervous about capture of whitey bulger? could it be that they protected him and now are terrified that health turn on them. finally, as they say, dying is easy, comedy is hard. texas governor rick perry found just how hard last night. check out the side show. we begin with libya, as we said the house today rejected a measure authorizing the u.s. mission...

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Dimension, youre correct on that. however, theres nothing symbolic about an amendment which is coming up in two weeks. its an amendment sponsored by myself and the congressman from michigan, that amendment cuts the funds. that is the amendment that will be the defining vote on libya. once you cut the funds, i think weve got a pretty good chance of passing it, then this thing is done. >> now, we all remember how we got into this and the circumstances that surrounded our action in libya, gadhafis ...

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As terrorisms next wave. the nots are rel tively simple, require -- the plots are relatively simple. administration officials say after bin ladens death in may, the next chant her focus on the al-qaeda new affiliates in yemen and somalia and homegrown threat. white house released a new roadmap for fighting extremism today. >> this is the first counterterrorism strategy that focuses on the ability of al-qaeda and the network to inspire people in the united states to attack us from within. >> repo...

Calls for careful unless and not just simply reaching for the military response. and the fact that we went based on threats as opposed to anything that was defineable that actually happened, thats a big problem because here we reacted in libya based on threats. and yet with what was going on in yemen and bahrain and syria and in other places where theres real harm done to civilians, we didnt do anything. and so, you know, you have to see whats really -- what is the real deal here in libya? is it...