The sewerest way to tear annie is giving the president unfettered war power. In the last decade or so we seem to be willing to do that with great liber ality. Congress shouldnt be allowing it to happen. Very sick idea for our country. The future belongs to not those who destroy. At this hour, american jets are in syrian airspace. Military officials have said u. S. And arab partners are taking part in ongoing air strikes againin syria at this h. This afternoon president obama chaired a special meeting of the u. N. Security council, the only american president to ever do so, the Security Council passed an anti terror resolution to compel countries to prevent and suppress the recruitment and travel of terrorists to foreign conflict areas. President obama stressed its importance. This resolution will share more information about the travel and activities of foreign terrorist fighters and it makes clear that respecting human rights, fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law is not many optional, it is an essential part of successful Counter Terrorism efforts. Indeed history many teaches us it the failure to uphold these rights can actually fuel violent extremism. The president not getting help from congress, hes just going to the u. N. To get what he wants. It comes at a perfect time. Today a Algeria Group beheaded a tourist on sunday. Today the people of the world have been horrified by another brutal murder, by terrorists in algeria. President Francois Hollande we stand with you and the french people as you grief your loss and you stand against terror. Acts like this is why an International Coalition is hellbent on destroying isis. The ramped up effort on terror is in full swring today. Is in full swing today. Earlier today president s main focus is to rally Global Support to fight isis and extremist groups. The brute brooality of syrias us to look at this brand of evil, only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of america will work with a Broad Coalition to dismantle this network of death. The president made clear we are going after criminals, not muslims. Thats why we are bring gt the fight to syria. President obama told the general assembly, problems in our Global Society contribute to extremism. And we have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, secretaryianism and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism on too many parts of the globe. Counter terrorism strategy cant success in places. The president had a passionate mess ang fge for you people in the muslim world. Here i would like to speak directly to young people across the muslim world. You come from a great tradition that stands for education, not ignorance. Innovation, not destruction. The dignity of life, not murder. Those who call you away from this path are betraying this tradition, not defending it. The president made the case in order to fix terrorism in the long term, deep rooted problems have to be addressed. Meanwhile president obama made clear isis can expect the full force of american air power. We will use our military might to role back isil, we will train and equip forces fighting on the ground. We will work to cut off their financing and stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region and already over 40 nations have offered to join this coltitialition, those who continue to fight for a hateful fight will find they are not alone. We will fight for those not those who destroy. Five new confirmed strikes took place tuesday and wednesday carried out strikes in syria and iraq. Two strikes west of baghdad destroyed armed vehicles and a weapons cache, fifth strike in syria. Today sent con conducted 198 air strikes against isis in iraq and 20 in syria. After 200 air strikes, americans may be wondering, how long will this take. Some experts are predicting it could take some time. Even if this goes swimmingly, three to five as least. Why so long. Because of the nature of the war. The nate ire of the target and frankly the nature of our strategy. With this level of military action a lot of lawmakers question whether the president of the United States has the legal power to act. Senator kaine saying, in this instance,. Now, the cheneywar doctrine is a 13yearold law passed after 9 11. To go to it directly, the use of force states you can make the legal case that the president s Legal Authority to attack isis under this law is shaky at best. Last night on this program it was speculated faulty intelligence could have been used to make congress happy to give the stamp of approval. I would like to see the intelligence we went on. Ive seen a lot of intelligence in my 40 years in government and a lot of it i didnt trust. I would suspect we threw khorasan and their plans to attack against the homeland in there to appease the congress more so than the intelligence shows that. That disturbs me. When i see people doing what we did in my administration with regard to iraqs wmd, that disturbs me. Under the act only congress can declare war. Question. Is this a new war or a big Counter Terrorism exercise. The loophole has American People divided whether the president is within Legal Authority to wage a longterm air campaign in iraq and syria. Clearly lawmakers must not think it is a crisis. Congress wont be in session until after the election. I want to no what you think. Should the president have asked congress for authorization for military action in syria . Text a for yes, text b for no to 67622. Leave a comment on our blog at msnbc. Com. For more let me bring in senator ba barbara boxer, good to have you with us tonight. This is almost round the clock operations in syria. And moments ago it is reported that the new air strikes will target Oil Facilities controlled by isis. Whats your reaction . And is this what your expectation was . My reaction is the president is taking the fight to isil and im glad hees doing is it. And the age old debate will go on. I think it is very important we write a resolution. Im working with my chairman menendez to do just that because it will come out of our farm Relations Committee. If your house was on fire, you and your wife were home, you run out of the zone side, get the hose, put out the fire, you wouldnt discuss your insurance policy and how much it covers. The loss that youre going to anticipate. Youll do that later. Its very important. But i respect those who are, i think saying, the president should do nothing, but i couldnt disagree more than i do. They are wrong. This is a threat. My goodness, ive seen intelligence, yes. But the American People have seen the videos of the beheading of two innocent american freelance journalists. So we know what were up against. Okay. So, you want a new resolution, and the Senate ForeignRelations Committee is working on that. Yes we are. All right. Are you okay with the president waging a multiyear air campaign in this Counter Terrorism effort alone or is this a new war . I look at as Counter Terrorism act and i voted for that resolution back in 01. There were two resolutions, one go after al qaeda and any affiliate, isil is an affiliate, this new group is an affiliate, and the other was boots on the ground, war in iraq, i voted against that. The one the president is relying on is the one i voted for. Would i like to see it looked at again and refined, of course i do. But it seems to me to get off into some kind of debate while we are under threat, and we are. Lets be clear about that. And you know, i said to john kerry when he came before our committee you know, he said we would love to have a resolution, i said i agree with you but knowing how thing goes here, you cant even pass the resolution saying happy mothers day without a big fight, without a philibuster, without politics. So i said i hope you will move forward to protect the American People. You know, that is in the constitution, that the president has that right and he is doing it. And i just wonder sometimes about my friends in the congress who say, look at me, look at me, im more important, and lets, you know, focus it back on the congress. We have a war resolution that talks about going after terrorists, we are working on another one. And in the meantime, the president has set forth a strategy, a new paradigm, he talked about in his speech, which i thought was brilliant. One, were not going to allow a safe haven for terrorists who threaten us and the world. But were not going to occupy land any more. And were going to do it with the world. Good for him. And good for us if we back him. And if we dont back him, i think that would be dangerous for the American People. Senator, if youre okay with the resolution and law that passed after 9 11, why do you need a new one . Well i think the president has said also, its eleven years old, approximately, we got to take a look at this. And we can make it better. But what i am saying is, while were working on a new resolution, i dont think the commander in chief can sit back while we have an offshoot of al qaeda planning to take down our aircraft. You can just imagine all of the president s enemies saying, oh, my god he sat back and waited for them to write a resolution and they went after one of our planes. You know, the president is doing it right. Hes using the authority he has. I think hes on strong ground to use it. Hes speaking from the congress, new authority, and i believe he is doing it the right way. Hes not putting american boots on the ground. And by the way, you asked a good question, what would i like to put in the new resolution. I would like to take the president s strategy and put it into the resolution, we will not allow safe havens for terrorists to threaten us but we wont put our combat boots on the ground. We will do this with the world, thats the kind of thing id like to shape. Senator, i appreciate how candid you are in all of this, and on point. I agree. I think theres no easy options for the president here. No. Unfortunately there will be ino se oinnocent people who are going to be killed. How do we know that wont come back and bite the United States or any coalition in the opposition rendering judgment or inflaming the middle east. I thought the president s speech today was very important. It was a generational pitch to young people explaining to the muslim world, the younger demographic, that this is not who we are. Were going after criminals, not the muslim faith. But when innocent people get killed are you nervous about that. Of course. Were all nervous about that. But thats why with what the president is doing for the first time in the arab nations, the sunni nations are standing with us on this. Because we cant sit idly by when this threat moves ahead. It is tragic when you have any collateral damage. Thats why we try so hard to pinpoint what wreere doing. We know the terrorists will hide among the populous, yes it is very dangerous. Thats why you need the whole world to take a stand against terrorism. I want to say this, i watch the president and read his speech, every line of it, i hope all americans will read that speech. It just shows that the world has changed and we got to look at it in a very different way and the United States needs partners and thats what this president stands for. And i think, it did take him time to come up with this strategy but i see it as a longterm strategy. Okay. Senator barbara boxer, great to have you with us tonight. I appreciate your time so much. Thanks so much. We will obviously come back to you for your opinion. Joining us now former United States assistant secretary of state for public affairs. Bj, the president goes to and chairs the u. N. Security council today, what impact do you think this will have. If hes not going to get cooperation from congress, they are out until after the election, he didnt have too many other kopoptions how import do you think this binding resolution is. It is very important. More countries recognize violent political extremism is a threat to them and to the United States. We still have work to do. Military action as we are seeing has a role to play as we were just talking with senator boxer. Ultimately, this is a conflict within islam, are the decisions made by islamic communities around the world, they have to determine and reject the vision like groups advance. The challenge for the United States, the west and other country ies is to try to cut of funding on one hand, very difficult since the Islamic State for the moment is selffunding, and also try to prevent isis from attracting more recruits from around the world. What about putin. Hes against air strikes in syria. So how is the state Department Going to handle any kind of relations with russia at this point . Well, the United States is trying to cooperate with russia where it can. We do have overlapping interests, fighting terrorism is one of those areas. I think putin is all for combatting the Islamic State. We disagree over the role of Bashar Al Assad in that. Putin wants to protect him. The United States wants to see someone else leading a much different syria. Russia and the us are cooperating on the current iranian negotiations. So you cooperate where you can and manage profound differences that do exist, obviously over ukraine which the president spoke about today as well. Thanks so much for your time tonight. Coming up, nuclear ambitions, iran links Nuclear Talks with the wests fight against islamic terrorists. Plus we have news about the leader of khorasan. Keep it here on now. Son picks . Keep it here on the ed show. I hope hes saving. Keep it here on the ed show. Who matters most to you says the most about you. At massmutual were owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. Whether youre just starting your 401 k or you are ready for retirement, well help you get there. Live in the same communities that we serve. People here know that our operations have an impact locally. Were using more natural gas vehicles than ever before. The trucks are reliable, thats good for business. But they also reduce emissions, and thats good for everyone. It makes me feel very good about the future of our company. [ male announcer ] momentum has a way of quietly exploding onto the scene. The new ram 1500 ecodiesel. With 28 highway miles per gallon, 420 poundfeet of torque. Guts. Glory. Ram. Welcome back to the ed show. It is reported u. S. Officials believe the leader of the group khorasan was killed during air strikes in syria. That report is not confirmed. We are learning more about the group and their plan to take down passengers plans with undetectible explosives. For months the u. S. Has been nervously watching as the Khorasan Group developed a plan to smuggle explosives on passenger plans. The only public candidate came this summer, new security rules requiring passengers to show their carry Electronic Devices would power on. Special attention was paid to Laptop Computers because of intelligence that said the group was testing a bomb design in laptops. Information about that was closely guarded. Ive known about it for several months. It was top secret and classified. We were not allowed to talk about it publicly. Officials dont believe a specific air flight or country has been chosen but the concern about the potential threat was very real. It was very possible they could have done this, im sure thats why the United States would intervene now because much better to catch it in the planning stages. As for the terrorist group isis, they worry the groups split propaganda could bring about noerng another beheading. We have to spent a lot of time to interrupt that, find ways to keep them from spreading the hatred and venom they have become so known for and the violence they celebrate and embrace. The department of Homeland Security and fbi have sent intelligence reports to local Law Enforcement officials to be on the alert for acts of retaliation in response to recent air strikes. The department of Homeland Security has not raised the countries threat level. I will bring in former assistant secretary of defense and the Program Director for the new america foundation. I bet Many Americans are probably wondering tonight why wasnt the threat level raised, and, do the American People deserve to know this kind of information, and threat, and potential harm is out there. Lawrence your thoughts on that. Well they should have been told that they have this group in syria with about a hundred people plotting attacks in the United States and western world. The key thing is they did share it with Homeland Security, so they were on the watch for it. But i think most americans were dumb founded when they were attacked while we were theoretically going after isil, not coming after other countries. Heather how much of a threat is khorasan to the United States in your opinion . Well, ed, were only starting to learn and it seems clear that on the one hand they aspire to be a big threat. They have the most talented al qaeda alumni, if you will, going in syria. On the other hand it seems clear the reason the threat level wasnt raised is that washington was confident it could deal with them before they