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Continuing our breaking news, the announcement expected momentarily from the white house that we are expanding the u.s. military operations, particularly special forces who are going to be deployed in northern syria. joining me, senator angus king of maine, member of the armed services and intelligence committees. lets talk about whether or not this war is authorized under the u.s. constitution. we have now been according to senator kane and others, we have been militarily operating against isis...

Its a question of who will flinch first. elise, thank you so much for that. joining me to discussing it is congressman chaffetz of utah. thanks so much for being here with us. as i said, a lot to discuss. first we saw today the president make a rare appearance from the pentagon. he said this fight against isis will not be quick. but he did not mention a war authorization from congress. congressman, if this is going to be a long fight, in your view does the president need that authorization? >>...

Learned, leaving aside the question of what you think of ann gellar and what went on before we speculated that we might have had people at isis that had been triggered, we now have people that isis can trigger. the problem here is going to get bigger. the president pretends it isnt coming here. every victory they win brings them closer and closer to these shores because we are not winning the hearts and minds and were not winning on the battlefield. >> and we have the director of the fbi, james ...

Learned, leaving aside the question of what you think of ann gellar and what went on before we speculated that we might have had people at isis that had been triggered, we now have people that isis can trigger. the problem here is going to get bigger. the president pretends it isnt coming here. every victory they win brings them closer and closer to these shores because we are not winning the hearts and minds and were not winning on the battlefield. >> and we have the director of the fbi, james ...

Things that were not able to know is things she decided to delete and say they werent part of the state department business. when we get that batch and see these e-mails, know these are things she already turned over and her lawyers and team have green lighted. >> lets go to congress and speaker john boehner is asking president obama to resubmit a war authorization request against isis. we saw yesterday at the daily briefing the white house pushing back significantly on who is to blame for the s...

>> reporter: at his first pentagon news conference standing by the u.k. minister of defense defense secretary ash carter added -- >> the sectarian danger in iraq is the principle thing that can unravel the campaign against isis isis. >> reporter: on capitol hill war protesters interrupted the defense secretary joint chiefs chairman and secretary of state who were asked to explain the presidents request for a new war authorization or aumf to fight isis which now controls 1/3 of iraq and syria. it...

When they get around to debating a request for a war authorization, no one knows what congress will do. reaction has not fallen along neat partisan lines so far. it is sort of all over the place. republicans say they will support president obamas authorization request, but they want to give him more power than he is asking for. there are democrats supporting him and opposing this. it doesnt break along the usual partisan lines or the usual liberal and conservative lines. that unpredictability ca...

It has been two weeks since president obama asked congress for use of military force. two weeks since he set parameters for a military campaign going on for months already. when they get around to debating a request for a war authorization, no one knows what congress will do. reaction has not fallen along neat partisan lines so far. it is sort of all over the place. republicans say they will support president obamas authorization request, but they want to give him more power than he is asking fo...

With isis fighters that are prisoners. these stories pile up by the day about isis. because there is so much fighting in washington right now i think any real american bebait about what we want do about ice sis pushed back a little bit. it has been two weeks since president obama asked congress for use of military force. two weeks since he set parameters for a military campaign going on for months already. when they get around to debating a request for a war authorization, no one knows what cong...

Clinton. >> regoogle. >> no. >> same bill. >> bill clinton this year and, of course, when it became much less popular, he stopped defending it but this is what the left, its collective amnesia on the left. >> there were 23 senators in all who voted against the war authorization and hillary clinton was not one of them chuck schumer was not one of them. bill clinton was a defender of the iraq war authorization and it hurts his credibility to make these articles. you still be critical of the execut...