leland: senator ben sasse in the armed service committee. the united states allies and partners are those who are still enabling pyongyang must confront and change kim jong un s calculus of terror. diplomatically if we can, militarily if we must. let s bring in susan riccio, correspondent of the washtington examiner. nice to see you. conceivably, any military action that would require congressional authorization unless it was a retaliation? not necessarily earlier this spring we took actions against syria. that did not require congressional authorization. it came under the envelope of the commander-in-chief authority where he was able to take narrowly targeted military action is considered to be in the national interest. if something were to happen, north korea launching further territories, and that s a situation we would be. however, the great decider on
leland. leland: gary tenney, lot to break down. liz will do just that. elizabeth: let s bring in tom broken or the washtington examiner. thank you for joining us. i do want to dig into russia, but i want to talk about shakeups very briefly. was there blame placed on sean spicer for the trail of this russian investigation looming over the president he and on top of that, the reason i ask you not is is it going to change the week ahead? we are talking about previews in the senate in hearings that could take place. yes and the second question now. and for his inability and i was frankly unfair and to change the narrative away from russia. the president watching the press conference has become increasingly frustrated. with this investigation continuing, with the testimony coming on capitol hill, which will inevitably necessarily
border wall, if you re able to succeed in doing all that and combine with the regulatory reform we ve already done and the supreme court justice, you have nine months of success. if you don t succeed on any spending matters, a lot of voters will be frustrated and they wired shoe doing what you said you were going to do? when you give up five weeks, it makes it that much harder to get those things done. will take a poll later some of your congressmen if they are like you, giving away their vacation. you had an interesting point in the washtington examiner quoted you as saying about the health care bill, k street fingerprints were on it. lobbyist knew what was in the bill before members of the house and senate did. speaking of the promises not only republicans made that president trump made to drain the swamp. it sounds like the swamp is festering just the same. well, it s frustrating.
spotted at a rest stop chatting with travelers as he waits in line. really glad that i read that this morning. journalists are liberating themselves into giving themselves a round of applause last night taking aim at the absent president and giving themselves a lot of praise. sarah westwood is correspondent for the washtington examiner in the room weren t happy. good to see you this morning. we one of the people standing up giving yourself a round of applause at one point question arc no. i think we all stood up and clapped for the free-speech toast. we did not all stand up for the roasting of the president. also it appeared after we are not fake news. we are not failing news. was it us against the world? back it seemed to be the
quickly. [cheers and applause] they ll get it done. we know them. they ll get it done. molly: president trump has passed 100 american is still fighting to repeal and replace obamacare. the president remains confident, but while he has once some other republicans, they still say they will vote no. a lot of them say they vote no. joining us now, chief congressional correspondent for the washtington examiner. thanks for being here. suzanne, looking ahead, they have a big long-term spending bill as well. they can bring the health care bill to make 100 days which is something they tried are hard to do. how do things look going forward? will we see it this week, next week? if they don t put it on the floor this week and passé come in the future of health care reform of the different. they have to start anew with something different.