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Months in yemen we hear about a drone strike or some sort of operation, fuzzy on the details, likely perhaps some special forces, drone strikes, whatever it is, that gets rid of an al qaeda in yemen operative. this is in many ways a message from the president. look. he would do more if he had fame in the iraqi government but yesterdays announcement was not having faith in the iraqi government, trying to to see if you send kerry over there to basically send the message to maliki, leader, leave. e...

Look, this is about isis or this is about this specific group that is wreaking havoc in syria and in iraq? >> actually, its a broader issue than that, though, in my view. mainly because maliki has failed to do what he absolutely needed to do, that is bring in the sunni community into the coalition. its been a shia/sunni confrontation with the sunnis feeling correctly, i think, shutout. bremer started that. maliki has continued that. i think thats part of the problem, but not all of the problem. ...

President, it was interesting and perhaps even wise to know the president -- the sources are saying, listen, boots on the ground is not an option. theyve made that at least clear before talking about the other options. >> well, look, theres a few things we got to remember legally. legally there is still a war authorization that is active that congress passed that does give the president a lot of leeway to do whatever he wants in iraq frankly. at this point when it comes to military issues. this ...

Size. >> i think you right, because were a bit -- because the media in this country, mostly the corporate media has cut back so much on foreign coverage, we dont really know whats going on over there so we set up a nice traup to understand it through the prism of our president and their president. rudy giuliani is impatient with democracy because he was bad about it when he ran for president. >> i imagine the management tips from vladimir putin, how to get your war authorization through the duma...

The opportunity to try to reassure a wary public. >> military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional. it is limited. it does not involve boots on the ground. this is not iraq, and this is not afghanistan. >> immediately after that private meeting, house speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi were quick to announce their support of war authorization. >> the use of these weapons had to be responded to, and only the united...

>> military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional. it is limited. it does not involve boots on the ground. this is not iraq, and this is not afghanistan. >> immediately after that private meeting, house speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi were quick to announce their support of war authorization. >> the use of these weapons had to be responded to, and only the united states has the capability and the capacity to sto...

Getting grilled over whether the president has authority to strike. were on top of it. im neil cavuto. were moments away from speaking to rand paul, a republican lawmaker that was grilling mike pompeo over whether we should be going to syria. first, rich edson on capitol hill with the latest on the back and forth. what are you hearing, rich? >> it was senator paul that led that exchange with the cia director mike pompeo regarding what the u.s. authority is, what the presidents authority is as to...

Months to pass a new authorization. this is certainly a bipartisan effort. congress has been talking about doing this for a long time. but theres a lot of concern about what if congress cant pass a new war authorization. what does that mean? i dont think anyone wants to find fought we just pull out troops overseas. and it definitely sends a bad message if lawmakers cant come to a consensus. weve definitely seen efforts at this sort of thing before and just really have never taken off. and it wil...

Finally get those negotiations under way. we understand also that there will be no conclusion out of these meetings today, that in fact, kerry might be circling back to vienna next week or some place else in europe to pick up these talks. this is just the beginning of long-delayed talks. i should also point out there are many in congress in both parties who have long been calling for a congressional war authorization and the statement we are going to hear shortly from senator king from maine, a ...

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