Hello, everyone. Great to see you. Im john berman. Im kate bolduan. This morning after much anticipation president obama is asking congress for formal authority to take on isis. The white house has now sent the authorization for use of military force, a lot of words on capitol hill they sum up as umaf sent to lawmakers on capitol hill. Thats coming six months after the mission against isis actually began and there are critics who say its long overdue. Its the details within that are sure to stoke controversy. It would limit the operation to three years. It limits the use of Ground Troops saying there will be no enduring offensive Ground Combat operations. What does that mean . It would not restrict the battlefield to iraq and syria but it would repeal the 2002 military authorization for the war in iraq. Lets get to it and bring in White House CorrespondentMichelle Kosinski and chief Congressional Correspondent dana bash who are working both ends of pennsylvania avenue on this one. Michelle lets start with you. This was anticipated, but what are you learning from the white house today . Reporter it has been a long time in coming. You can see the balance that the president was trying to strike here. Tailor something to fit the isis fit specifically but still leave flexibility because you dont know how the mission will change going forward. First place you see that balance repealing the 2002 authorization pertaining to the war in iraq but leaving in place the one from someone related to al qaeda and its associates. Thats the one the white house has been operating under to fight isis. Its interesting that they left that one stand. However, we all know that al qaeda and its associates remain a threat. Aqap being the main one. Other areas of balance allowing the president and pentagon to fight isis wherever it is. Doesnt put geographic limits on the fight and also includes isis Associates Groups fighting alongside isis. Where this aumf does set the limit is the Ground Troops. That language in the actual request enduring offensive Ground Combat operations does not authorize the president to use that. In his letter to congress he said it wouldnt authorize longterm largescale Ground Combat like those our nation conducted in iraq and afghanistan. Theres a limit that not everybody agrees with but you can see that it does leave a window open for shorter term smaller scale Ground Combat operations. All of these things are open to interpretation and you can say thats why weve been using a 2001 authorization in the first place. Back to you guys. The president will make his case to the public today at 3 30. Hell give a little bit of an announcement in his speech about this plan at the white house. Meanwhile, lets go to capitol hill. Dana bash, those words, no enduring offensive Ground Combat operations. I see a battle brewing from both sides of the aisle over this. Reporter remember goldilocks . They are trying to find one thats just right. Its not easy. Its for reasons you wouldnt think along Traditional Party lines because the democrats are saying that they believe that it is too broad. They want to narrow the president s authority. The republicans are saying that it is too narrow. The president himself has to tie his own hands too much. Lets listen to what House Speaker john boehner said on that note this morning. Im not sure that its a strategy thats been outlined will accomplish the mission the president says he wants to accomplish. The president s point is he wants to dismantle and destroy isis. I havent seen a strategy yet that i think will accomplish that. Reporter basically the gist of what were hearing from a lot of republicans is that what the authority that the president asked for limits the president s ability as a commander in chief. They dont care that it is a democratic president. They think its a bad precedent. The flip side you hear from democrats that theyre very worried. Theyve been down this road before they say, about giving the president too broad of authority. Listen to what the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi said about that issue. We hope to have bipartisan support for something that would limit the power of the president but nonetheless protect the American People in a very strong way. Reporter just to sum this all up what does this mean . Even though members of congress on both sides of the aisle have been demanding that Congress Debate this and they believe many illegal or unconstitutional for the person to have been waging this action already against isis without Congress Acting is definitely no sure thing that congress will be able to find a compromise to actually act and thread that needle on the difference between how much power or how little power the president should have. Its an important debate to have. Thanks so much for this. Some of the greatest skepticism here is coming from democrats and members of the president s own party. Later well speak to senator chris murphy who has indicated he would vote against this measure as its currently written and well ask him to explain his view on that. Likely one of the toughest votes that many members of congress will take. One of the toughest votes tail take in more than a decade at this point. The u. K. U. S. And france will pull workers out of france. Rebels seized u. S. Embassy vehicles parked at the airport and even stopped u. S. Marines leaving the country from taking their weapons with them. Yemen has been a nation in chaos for weeks and months since rebels placed the president there under house arrest. The state Department Warns now of ongoing risk of kidnapping to foreigners including americans. Lets bring in chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto. Jim, shutting down the embassy. American vehicles seized. This seems like a dangerous and volatile situation to say the least. Its dangerous. A difficult departure from this very key diplomatic post in a very key region in a very key and difficult time. Were told that because the houthies rebels who have taken over the central part of the country and capital control the airport, it is they who require the marines to give up their weapons at the airport and take over now the vehicles at the embassy and were told by officials that they prepare houthies to go into the complex so prepare yourself for difficult images of people taking over what is u. S. Property abroad. Were told that u. S. Embassy personnel took all necessary steps destroying documents and computer disks and disabling any weapons they left behind but also keep in mind its not just visas that an embassy puts out. This is about political contacts on the ground. Intel gathering. Military cooperation with the yemenis which is key because theyre a partner in fighting Aqap Al Qaeda in the arabian peninsula. This is a real loss. You understand why they did it. Its a volatile situation but you do lose something not having that diplomatic post on the ground. Exactly to that point, this seems like it could be seen as a blow to the Obama Administration. Its definitely going to be used by republicans to criticize his Foreign Policy stance because yemen and cooperation with Yemeni Government is something the president held up as Successful Partnership in taking on terror. Thats exactly right. This is regionwide now. You have no diplomatic presence. No embassy in yemen. None in syria for a number of years. Postbenghazi, nothing in libya and nothing in somalia for a number of years. All of these places hotbeds of terrorism. You have al shabab here. You have isis in libya as well. Isis in syria. Aqap in yemen. Talk of isis fighters there. No diplomatic presence. Im told by u. S. Military officials that counterterror operations will continue. Thats drone strikes, et cetera down here in the south. You do lose something when you dont have those key diplomatic relation ships relationships and not sharing information with the local government and now we see that in four failed states that are real threats to u. S. Security. Its a problem. A real loss. Important context you are putting it in. Thank you so much. Surprising consequences from last weeks deadly plane crash in taiwan. More than half of the pilots trained to fly that same model of aircraft for transasia have been suspended. Several of them failed to pass tests on how to handle plane during engine failure and others were not able to take the test because they were out of the country or apparently sick. The pilots will be able to take the test again after retraining. Investigators looking into last weeks crash say pilots may have cut off the wrong engine when they sensed troubles. New developments in the shooting deaths of three Muslim Students in north carolina. Police now say an ongoing dispute among neighbors over parking may have pushed the alleged gunman to carry out the attack. Three people were killed here. 46yearold Craig Steven Hicks has been charged with three counts of firstdegree murder now. Hes being held without bond and is said to be cooperating with investigators. Authorities do say theyre going to continue to investigate whether the victims religion had any part in this attack. A lot of questions about this case. Moving words from a 6yearold in the fight against measles. California School District last night voted to support a proposed state law that would stop letting parents cite personal beliefs to stop their children from getting vaccines before entering school. Hes been in remission from leukemia for a year and a half but his immune system is to weak for him to get shots. His father says he relies on immunity of other kids to protect him. Thank you for teaching science and making everybody get vaccinated unless they are doing chemo like i did. Soon we will say good with the measles. I give a damn. Thats a damn cute kid right there. Are you kidding me. Hes so cute. Nearly 8 of the kids in his county are not vaccinated. Thats among the highest number in the state of california. Im going to watch that over again later. New information, Important Information to tell you about kayla mueller, the american aid worker and isis hostage whose death was just confirmed. Intelligence officials telling cnn that mueller might have been given to an isis fighter during her 18month captivity as some kind of bribe. Its not clear at this point if she was forced or sold into this pairing. The circumstances around muellers death are still very much unclear. Isis claimed she died last week in a Jordanian Air strike. Thats been disputed in the u. S. And beyond. Thats clearly part of the investigation now. Troubling. Coming up for us two big names on tv are going off the air. Jon stewart leaving the daily show on a very high note. And then a bombshell moment in the news business. The highest rated evening news anchor suspended. The controversy surrounding Brian Williams. We have new information about his future next. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about . Foreign markets. Asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. You know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. If you convert 4quarter p e of the s p 500 its yield is doing a lot better. If youve had to become your own investment expert, maybe its time for bny mellon a different kind of wealth manager. And black swans are unpredictable. [ male announcer ] eligible for medicare . Thats a good thing, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medical expenses. The rest is up to you. 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His announcement hit the airwaves last night and shocked everyone but also offered only a bit of a hint about why he may be leaving. Im not going to be here and try and sum up what this place has meant to me over the years. I couldnt do that. We have plenty of time and ive got a myriad of people to thank and well get to that over time. Im not going anywhere tomorrow. But this show doesnt deserve an even slightly restless host and neither do you. Want to bring in robert thompson, director of the center for media studies at syracuse university. Professor, thank you so much for being with us. You know we joked about jon stewart being a fake news anchor. He does this comedy show on Comedy Central. But hes become much more than that. He has. I mean he starts in january of 99. Takes over from craig and is doing fraternity jokes. The Elections Come along and he finds his own voice and that show since then has been an important part not only of American Television but of our civic conversation when most of the news operations have dropped the ball on stories like weapons of mass destruction and the rest of it that comedy show has been plugging away sometimes in ways that are much more insightful than we see in the more legitimate news operations. On one point did he also downplay the Anthony Weiner scandal at one point. Hes not infallible. Absolutely. He always kind of hides behind his old line used to be why does anybody take me seriously . My leadin is a puppet show. His leadin isnt puppets anymore but he had that downplayed the fact that it was just a comedy show. He knew and we knew that what was going on in that program was considerably more important. Now, i never thought it was good that people only get their news from jon stewart. Thats not a good thing. People who have jon stewart as part of their diversified portfolio of information is a fine thing to put in there. How much of a void is there and how do you suspect it will be filled . Hes not just a hero to some millennials but also to liberals. Its not like hes right down the middle here in terms of his criticism. Unlike colbert which they scrapped the show and put a new show in there, the daily show will continue its format. I think it will continue its title. I think if theyre smart, theyll recruit from within. They have a faithful fan base. Whoever is part of that family they love. They love john oliver when he took over and he did a perfectly good job doing that. They loved colbert when he went to his show. If i were on Comedy Central running the place, i would immediately right now offer the job to one of their internal candidates. Jessica williams. Shes funny. Shes smart. Shes a great actor. Shes prettier than jon stewart and i think she would give a little different voice to that show which is maybe what we need now. John oliver in many ways when he took over while stewart was making his movie was almost doing a jon stewart impersonation in a british dialect. That was fine as a place holder. After all these years, maybe we need a slightly different stick than what jon stewart did so brilliantly. Im going to miss him terribly. I think someone like Jessica Williams who has been on that show a lot, who is part of the family could do some really fascinating things. John oliver did nail the british accent when he was doing it. He really did. Professor, thank you so much. Appreciate you being with us. All right. The crisis in ukraine. Theres a war raging in Eastern Ukraine right now. Hundreds of people dying every month there. There is a potential peace meeting happening right now. Leaders from key nations meeting. What will be the outcome . Well take you there next. 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