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Policy, a big role. in fact, they gave the ultimate role you know in declaring war to congress. and that was intentional. to make it difficult, and to make it that we only went to war when we had consensus. >> there is an intenseity on iran, we have to debate every facet of the deal. none of that on isis. >> i think thats disappointing. before christmas i brought it up in the foreign relations and i introduced a declaration of war against isis because -- i did try to attach it to a water bill, w...

Before christmas, i brought it up in the foreign relations and i introduced a declaration of war against isis because -- i did try to attach it to a water bill, which annoyed some people. people are like why are you attaching a war resolution to a water bill. thats all theyll let me attach it to. i forced them to debate. thats one of the things to me that has been most exciting about being in the senate. i could be at home saying, congress should declare war and why wont congress get involved? b...

Capability to rollback. i rolled it back. >> most people in afghanistan cant read or write, the opium trade dominates the economy. is the most corrupt nation on earth i think. if he could do it in ten years good for you. that is pretty optimistic. >> we disagree on sending troops to the middle east. this is where you and i differ but if president obama was going to send troops how does he make a compelling argument for men and women to get their limbs blown off when he cant even identify who the...

Result will be a clean bill. the end result will also be a weakened speaker boehner. and i think that more than anything else right now is the goal of a lot of people yep side the conservative movement. they see a vulnerable speaker. somebody whos faced setback after setback. and right now a lot of them smell brood. its not only harmful for boehner but mcconnell as well. over in the senate, hes the guy, remember, who said no more shutdowns. there wont be any more republican shutdowns in this new...

Get more republicans to come around i dont know. i can almost predict with quite a bit of certainty that the end result will be a clean bill. the end result will also be a weakened speaker boehner. and i think that more than anything else right now is the goal of a lot of people yep side the conservative movement. they see a vulnerable speaker. somebody whos faced set back after set back. and right now a lot of them smell brood. its not only harmful for boehner but mcconnell as well. over in the...

Today? >> a little, i think youre libertarian minded people here, theyre really worried about opening up a new front on the war on terror. they worry about an endless war. they have put forth a war resolution saying they need to declare war against isis. the concern is you look back at afghanistan and iraq, and the endless wars. i think people have concerns about that. they were against nation building in the clinton years. theyre against the idea of nation building and using our forces for that...

Historically thats amusing. in the war of 1812, the debate around that, there was a filibuster in that era in the house of representatives. and the house was filibustering the war. it passed, by the way, war resolution with no federalist votes, very similar to where we are today. but the only way to stop the filibuster was somebody threw a spitoon. think how disgusting that is. >> that spitoon is still on the senate floor. >> the noise was so loud, the filibuster was over and they went on to vot...

Completely different. >> normally freshman senators are supposed to be quiet. i remember when hillary clinton was a freshman senator from new york state, barely heard from her. she was learning, she was a little bit talking but she was very, very polite, very, very quiet. thats usually the normal operating procedure when a freshman comes -- >> they certainly dont push the house of representatives into a course the rest of the party doesnt want to go down. >> lets talk about the presidents nomine...

Non-interventionism has been pronounced the last couple of decades or was it rabid anti-clintonism and now rabid anti-obamaism. >> i was talking to a top aide who was saying this is not the same republican party that was supporting bush as he took the steps that he took. this is the republican party o who -- democrats cut this deal on sequester well match defense cuts and domestic cuts and we wont have to deal with it. the republican party for whom the defense support is no longer the sacred cow...

This, we need you on board? >> you know, i think on questions like this, steve, where youre talking about a resolution authorizing a military strike, without combat -- without boots on the ground, without combat forces, rises to a level above, what does this mean for the president? what does this mean for me? im more interested in what does this mean for iran? what does this mean for north korea? what does this mean for our long-term security interests? i think most of my colleagues stay focused...