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Of its time in a quorum call, which is nothing positive. so i think this was a great opportunity for a young, new -- sophomore senator to make his point and he got a lot of support for it, whether you agree with him or not. thats what the senate was designed to do is to actually come out there -- >> two members of congress who were not actually around after the attack of 9/11, you werent in congress yet. and this whole debate about drones and presidential power. would you as members of congress ...

So i think this was a great opportunity for a young, new -- sophomore senator to make his point and he got a lot of support for it, whether you agree with him or not. thats what the senate was designed to do is to actually come out there -- >> two members of congress who were not actually around after the attack of 9/11, you werent in congress yet. and this whole debate about drones and presidential power. would you as members of congress like to see congress have a real debate about whether the...

Debate about whether the president should still have the same level of authority he has in the realm of executive power, national security, to fight this war on terror as president bush got from congress? should congress have the guts to step up and have that debate? >> id like to see a real debate on many things in congress, especially this issue. the i think the authority of the president when it comes to war powers, actions in iraq, iran, whats happening in the united states with drones and t...

Division all i see is senator graham. he is beyonce or something. i do think that there are a lot of die synaptics at patrol, republicans often, just like democrats, i have to add this, have a tendency not to like people who skip the line. rand paul has basically gone from being an optometrist to a senator and now he wants to run for president and people who have been in the party a long-term, either party, like for people to go --. >> well, barack obama had a short stay in the senate. >> that i...

Division all i see is senator graham. he is beyonce or something. i do think that there are a lot of die synaptics at patrol, republicans often, just like democrats, i have to add this, have a tendency not to like people who skip the line. rand paul has basically gone from being an optometrist to a senator and now he wants to run for president and people who have been in the party a long-term, either party, like for people to go --. >> well, barack obama had a short stay in the senate. >> that i...

Notion that ron wyden, far to the left of rand paul on almost everything ends up being an alley ally. they go to core issues around due process, around interpretation of the constitution, around war powers. that kind of stuff sometimes, when it gets introduced in these debates, is not a democrat/republican thing. its places where different weird coalitions get exposed and get built. and i think, you know, its not that surprising that this is happening because this is one of these issues that rea...

And chief authority subject to congressional check through the appropriations process to defend the united states against attack. >> i dont get how thats an answer. the issue is whether we are in a war situation whether we are operating under the war powers of the constitution or whether we are in a law enforcement situation the two have radically different approaches. we killed tens of thousands. maybe hundreds of thousands without due process whatsoever in the civil war and it was the right th...

And chief authority subject to congressional check through the appropriations process to defend the united states against attack. >> i dont get how thats an answer. the issue is whether we are in a war situation whether we are operating under the war powers of the constitution or whether we are in a law enforcement situation the two have radically different approaches. we killed tens of thousands. maybe hundreds of thousands without due process whatsoever in the civil war and it was the right th...

And chief authority subject to congressional check through the appropriations process to defend the united states against attack. >> i dont get how thats an answer. the issue is whether we are in a war situation whether we are operating under the war powers of the constitution or whether we are in a law enforcement situation the two have radically different approaches. we killed tens of thousands. maybe hundreds of thousands without due process whatsoever in the civil war and it was the right th...

And the definition is so vague that drones can be employed anywhere in the world against united states citizens without due process of law and that makes us ask, when is the united states, the president, and the administration very often in secret justified in projecting force all across the world with lethal means without any kind of recourse or any due process or any real justification or call for accountability by the united states people? i mean, this conversation is far overdue, because thi...