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How would fdr possibly have pursued our enemies? imagine if he had a congress that denied him a war resolution. thats where we are now. as long as we remain there, as long as we have a president who is so small, who refuses to give an inch on the very fundamental question of whether theres an adversary that is interfering with our democracy, we have a big problem. >> i want to follow up on that analogy. its provocative. the other side of the analogy is that it sounds like you are calling for war...

Imagine if he had a congress that denied him a war resolution. thats where we are now. as long as we remain there, as long as we have a president who is so small, who refuses to give an inch on the very fundamental question of whether theres an adversary that is interfering with our democracy, we have a big problem. >> i want to follow up on that analogy. its provocative. the other side of the analogy is that it sounds like you are calling for war. what it sounds like you are saying if its equiv...

>> thats a question for paul ryan. there is bipartisan support resolution since 2001. this is the resolution that allowed them to go into afghanistan. so the critics of that rightly say it is out dated. we have a new geography. we are in syria. we have a new enemy. isis. there is a growing bipartisan push for paul ryan to bring something to the floor and president trump to deliver something to congress. obama had done so a couple years ago. republicans did not want to take it up. democrats oppos...

Its been 16 months now, service members killed and also more than anything this is ma thats sized. isis is not just in syria and iraq, theyre elsewhere. i think that theres a growing realization that we need to have this debate and we have to have a war resolution and so i do, i am concerned about that. certainly, we dont want a debate and our leadership is concerned we have a debate and dont get anywhere. that would be a good thing. i think theres an increasing realization that even if we dont ...

Islam at a university, its nearly impossible, because we like to pretend its not there. >> the target is very clear, it is isis. it is al qaeda. and the reality here is that the republicans running for president would be advocating a war resolution against isis. the republican senate has not even confirmed the undersecretary to oversee counterterrorism activities and to oversee financial crimes, which deals with freezing money for terrorists? thats where the real battle is. >> do you know that t...

>> and avoid stereotyping muslims? is that the end result here or avoid enflaming anger? >> every isis and al qaeda terrorist has one objective, to unite the muslim community, 1.6 billion of them, to convince them that they are at war with the united states. >> if we say were at war with radical islam, thats going to do that? >> if we -- >> no one is saying war with islam. >> thats how it will be sbur preted. -- interpreted. lets focus on what can be done. why hasnt ted cruz stood up and support...

Islam at a university, its nearly impossible, because we like to pretend its not there. >> the target is very clear, it is isis. it is al qaeda. and the reality here is that the republicans running for president would be advocating a war resolution against isis. the republican senate has not even confirmed the undersecretary to oversee counterterrorism activities and to oversee financial crimes, which deals with freezing money for terrorists? thats where the real battle is. >> do you know that t...

Past, and -- and, you know, what we now see is a very different and very dangerous situation. the united states is doing what it can, but ultimately this has to be a struggle that the iraqi government and the iraqi people are determined to win for themselves. >> her answer there varied only slightly from what she did write in the book "hard choices," quote in the book many senators came to wish they voted against the resolution, the war resolution. i was one of them. wasnt alone in getting it wr...

Action on authorizing a new war resolution. so, what we have got here is a very ill defined mission with no limit on size and scope in terms of where what we can do, and so the president is really -- he is restricted. and he cant really take the action that a lot of people on capitol hill feel is necessary. but, if you go to congress, nobody in congress agrees on what it to do. >> are we still betsy remember former secretary of state colin powell said maybe the pottery barn analogy said if you b...

Custom we make the determination about collateral damage or the killing of innocents. in in case that turned out to be wrong. the standard that the president put in place is very high near certainty that there wont be death to civilians. >> this didnt meet those standards. >> the protocols were followed the standard whether or not this was a military facility where al qaeda operated out of and was a threat to our forces was accurate. but hostages were held against one of the facilities we took i...