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Sort of order life-and-death decisions. >> right. but we also understand when it comes to making war, war is best conducted by a president. thats why the president is vested with extraordinary war powers. by the way, this is done with the authority of congress. this is not president obama sitting alone doing this. he is pursuing the law. >> because the congress cant see the legal document on which this is based. jon: the arguments left and right still go on. it is really a fascinating discussion...

Be heightened in terms of what were not telling congress, what were not releasing to the public. >> and to your earlier point, rick lowry, your colleague has an opinion piece in politico this morning called "cheneys revenge" and he compare this is issue to waterboarding and the bush administration. let me quote from that. democratic partisans might be confused. they considered bush a threat to americas liberty because of his defense of his war powers, yet their hero stands on similar ground. how...

States from missouri to kentucky to maryland and delaware. also excluded the entire state of tennessee. so, it was the prince pple military order, and lincolns use of the war powers provision to essentially strip the confederacy of enslaved people as laborers, as the backbone of holding up the infrastructure of the south, and indeed, prosecuting the war, and made possible the eventual end of slavery, sfwlu a lot that hapbut happened in between. >> that strategic point is so critical, because the...

Had prior to 9/11. thats the hope of lots of constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration, with some caveats you mentioned. the question is, is this the beginning of this president creating, i guess, a new normal, as johnson says? in which we are not in a state of war and the president is not executing war powers in a consistent and endless way? >> ron, you are a ...

Term. certainly shut down guantanamo. there are clear issues here of the presidency hopefully snapping back into the shape it had prior to 9/11. thats the hope of lots of constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration. so the question is this the beginning of the president creating a new normal, as johnson says, in which we are not in a state of war and the presiden...

Constitutional scholars. it has not done that up to now. most of the powers granted or obtained by the bush administration have conveyed, if you will, to the obama administration. so the question is this the beginning of the president creating a new normal, as johnson says, in which we are not in a state of war and the president is not executing war powers in a consistent and endless way? >> ron, you are a student of leadership, both a student of good leadership and bad leadership. i feel like l...

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You could have all sorts of policy differences, but in a time of crisis, did the democrats say to bush, you cannot have your war powers? were not in a crisis, were not going to come together? theyre just asking people to forget how they behaved and to say, you know, you got any problems out there in this economy, you cant hide, you dont have a job, you know whose fault it is? president obamas. its not what is happening in the world. there are governments, conservatives and liberals around the wo...

ridiculist tonight. breaking news everyone. tonight right now in that building over on the senate side according to democrat harry reid who spoke last hour, nothing is going on. the senate is now adjourned. but the clock is still ticking and the government is running out of money to pay the bills at this moment because the debt limit was not raised back in may, the united states treasury has less cash on hand than apple computer. on wednesday the government will have $23 billion in s...

a string of delays the house narrowly passed speaker john boehners version of a debt reduction bill. >> i stuck my neck out a mile to try this. to get an agreement with the president of the united states. i stuck my neck out a mile. and i put revenues on the table. in order to try this. to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted. and it is time for the administration and...