The baby charlotte. The early word is that the baby will be eligible for the presidency at 2052. The white house is hinting at a time table for naming replacement for attorney general eric holder. We are going to talk about all of this this morning. We want to begin in oklahoma where Highway Patrol officers say four people have been killed in an overnight bus crash. All four were members of the North CentralTexas CollegeSoftball Team. The bus collided with a semi truck. Three of the women died at the scene and the fourth at the hospital. 15 more people on the bus were injured. The bus was returning from gainesville, florida. We will keep you updated. Turning to the campaign against isis. The effort received three new helping hands. Belgium and denmark agreed to offer military support. In the uk the house of commons spent hours debating the authorization of force. I believe it is our duty to take part. This International Operation is about protecting our people, too. And protecting the streets of britain should not be a task that we are prepared to subcontract to other air forces of other countries. It is right for us to act. After that the Uk Parliament did vote to authorize air strikes in iraq, however, the vote did not include syria. So far attacks within syria have been carried out by the United States and five arab states threatened by isis. Here in the u. S. Congress voted to supplying air and training to moderate rebel groups in syria. The new session in january at the earliest. House Speaker John Boehner told the New York Times doing this with a group of members on their way out the door i dont think is the right way to handle this. The democratic leader in the senator, as we move forward i expect consultations between administration and congress to continue. The big question is will congress feel the pressure . Will congress feel any pressure to vote on this . To come back from the campaign trail, debate the military action going on for weeks now. Military action being taken in the name of every american. To discuss this i am joined by amy davidson and colonel jack jacobs. So lets start on this question of the vote. And maybe im being a little too cynical because i have noticed a pattern. That is when for lack of a better term back bench members of congress are on tv or confronted about this subject they say i want to vote. I absolutely want to vote. We should vote. It is the right thing to do. It is almost as if they are all being protected by the leadership, by john boehner, harry reid. They say you go out and say you want to vote. It is what the voters want to hear but we make sure you dont have to. If they held a vote they would have to be accountable for how they voted which is a problem. It is so funny to hear this clamoring for debate over the authorization for use of force. There is the outcry for the congress to be a part of this decision and no one seems to have that happen. I was looking at the clip of the uk debate and how novel to have a debate over the use of force. Almost like a country doing democracy better than us. Thats what we really need. Im reminded of the time during the war of vietnam when everybody was doing exactly the same thing as this on the air all the time talking about how bad the war in vietnam was just assuming that nobody had read the constitution and recognized that article one of the constitution is not the president but the congress. It is the congress that decides whether or not we spend the money on it. You dont want to do it, stop paying the money. The war powers act gives them the ability to do this if there is not a regular report on how we are doing. Asked about pressure. Where is the pressure going to come from . This is the president who talked about how this is not the way he wants to go to war but it is easy for him to do it. There is no pressure from congress. Where is the pressure . Everybody is making it easy for everybody else and sets us up with a bad methodology. It would take it seems to me every house seat in the country is up for grabs. It would take the American People in their districts, in their home states demanding to know where they stand and it would take those members i think turning around and telling leadership we have to do this. It is a little amazing what john boehner was saying basically saying he didnt think it was appropriate for congress to do anything important for the next three months. How is that different . You included a word in there, important which is not important for congress to do anything. It is funny because to what you said john boehner earlier this week was asked isnt this kind of what you guys are supposed to do with the wars . I will say this. In terms of what boehner was saying he is talking about the lame duck session. Everybody is campaigning and then the guys who are retiring or lose their seats and they are saying he doesnt think that is the appropriate time to vote. In that sense i think he has a point. That is the vote to authorize. We can revisit that vote all you want. They did do the vote before the election. That took place in the fall. Every candidate running, the bush administration, thought they had analect eelectoral advantage. Its not like there are not tools to not do this. Its not for nothing that the American Public is so cynical about government. Neither the president nor the guys at the other end of pennsylvania avenue do anything that the people wants, that is to govern. Every poll indicates that the American People hate the government. They are starting to hate the form of government. For this to change at all for what boehner laid out this week, if you listen to harry reid who is not sure they need a vote, for that to change there has to be real noise. We are being manipulated by terrorists in this regard. The lawmakers are able to like use emotion to make its appeal without having accountability. And the acts of violence are being spread in the news. Lawmakers are having something to react to and American People have something to react to but no one there to take responsibility for accountability moving forward. As long as it is not happening to them they are perfectly happy to listen to the president say we are going to blow up these bad guys and it wont cost you a penny. This president is the logical inherter of the same attitude of the last president. We have a lot of skin in the game. If we get to january and there is a vote then look how fast this is coming in. At that point what is the point of a debate in january . That is a really interesting point. This isnt just sending planes and bombing. It is making deals and arrangements and tradeoffs and promises, all of those things that war involves besides just pulling a trigger. We would hear dont pull out now because we have established and made these arab alliances. And its not like a war is something you can put on a shelf and hope it is going to look exactly the same when it is plitcally convenient for you to come back. We are making an effort to do that. If possible this is an even more confusing situation than iraq. Remember when hardest thing about the middle east was keeping sunni straight. The coalition is a constantly shifting coalition within those countries. The American People are seeing something play out that i dont think the lawmakers understand what the alliances are. I wanted to get to the idea that the escalation is happening that we wont be able to stop the idea that the American People dont stop what is happening. The American People are now split almost 50 50 as to whether or not we should have pulled out of iraq. That is an amazing number when you think about the numbers when obama was elected. Thats a bigger subject, too. It is a big talking point about the circumstances of the u. S. Drawing down a couple of years ago. That has been heavily discussed. I want to move on. A couple of other topics isis proving to be the big topic of conversation at this weekends value voters summit in washington. The conservative gathering continues this morning. You will hear from glen beck later today. Yesterday some republicans considering president ial bids using the podium to criticize the handling of isis. The vacuum of american leadership. We need a president who will speak out for people of faith. Leading to a host of unintended consequences. Toppling secular dictators in the middle east led time and time again to chaos and enabled and embedded the rise of radical islam. Ted cruz and rand paul. Not invited by organizers to this was jeb bush, Chris Christie. What you are seeing is the classic divide between the conservative base of the Republican Party and the establishment. This is about ted cruz, rand paul trying to vide the voice of the base. One thing jumped out at me. You think of these big political speeches they have some upbeat peppy music. Springsteens born to run. Rand paul took the stage as a video of a fetal ultrasound played for the crowd. For rand paul who has a lot of skeptics on the christian rite. I saw that in the paper and my thought was i love seeing my friends ultrasounds and mine. I actually enjoy watching rand paul speak. Somehow the combination of it as intromusic doesnt bode well i bet it did but the idea of the crowd. It is for them and not for you. It is invasive in almost a literal way. So you said a little while ago about the syria situation that americans are in and the incompetence and lack of accountability but americans are s souring on our form of government. It looks a little bit like what they want. They are calling for the explicit input of religion into american politics. Tony perkins gave an interview where he said americans wanted to have more religious involvement in our National Politics and took this as a sign that we should have churches endorsing candidates and involved in democracy. That is not a bad thing necessarily but what rand is doing and the kind of stuff that ted cruz talked about its a dangerous move to think that the American People are actually okay with that particular mapping of religious extremism on to politics. With a primary like that because primaries attract people six standard deviations away from the mean you have a hard time winning an election. The same meeting last year they took the straw poll and ted cruz ran away with it. You can see that rand paul senses he has ground to make up with ted cruz when it comes to the Christian Conservative voters. And the Foreign Policy stuff. And on israel. The paul strategy is he thinks he can unite in a way ted cruz cant the establishment of the party maybe reluctantly with the base. This is what he thinks it takes to get to the base. Forget the general election. The establishment of the party is he doing something here that turns the establishment of the party off to him. The establishment of the Republican Party is not where rand paul is on intervention, on americas role in the world. So its going to be a really interesting stretch for the Republican Party. He is appealing to the base on these values but he does have an appeal to a whole wing of the Republican Party that is not interested in going places. I see ted cruz as somebody even if he ends up being the choice of the base i cant see how he gets the nomination because there is too much resistance. 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Well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. We are back and turning to the domestic front. The white house is hinting at a time table sort of for replacing attorney general heric holder. Josh earnest says the white house should act quickly to confirm once the president names a nominee. Officially it cant come until congress is back in session. They are out campaigning right now. White house secretary cited recent precedent. In less than a month, december 6, secretary gates was confirmed to his post. There is a precedent for president s making important cabinet nominations and counting on congress to confirm them promptly even in the context of a lame duck session if necessary. Yesterday attorney general holder told joy reid his resignation will not effect the agenda. People have to understand something. Barack obama is still the president of the United States. He and i share a world view. I did the things that he wanted me to do. We are partners. My departure will not have impact on this administrations commitment to the civil rights issue that has been the life of this president. So what do we think will happen when president obama nominates the next attorney general . I thought there was something clever here. There is nobody, almost nobody has been going after it for the last six years than eric holder. What the white house is saying here is not just eric holder is going away but he is going away once somebody new is confirmed. Basically republicans you want this guy who you have railed against for six years gone then get somebody new in there. Dont get somebody new in there you are stuck with eric holder. I think ted cruz called on his colleagues actually to maybe not leave this choice to the lame duck session and maybe push it and to fight and make sure they had somebody. That is a key difference potentially i dont know who that would be. Control of the senate is on the line. We already know democrats have the majority in the lame duck session. I want to say like im not so sad he is leaving either. It would be interesting to see if the republicans can find somebody worse on Civil Liberties or if we get an improvement. That is some place they have criticized eric holder. He has been terrible, the worst for journalists probably in decades. It is sort of weird to see this happening. I feel like civil libertarians are stuck biting their tongue because this has been a disaster for us. And thats not getting talked about because he is such a lightning rod. I do have a lot of personal respect for him. Those two things are linked. We start silencing journalists and letting corporations do what they want because they are too big to jail, the people who get hurt by that are the minorities, less powerful in society. I think holder has been quite a bit to the right of where people think he is on specific issues, absolutely. He is to the left of probably where the majority of middle of the road americans. If you take everything in total he is actually quite a bit to the right of where everybody thinks he it is. It is interesting the civil rights aspect of his legacy has been in obamas second term. It is not where he started. He always had the principles but the real push in the areas has been in the last two years for holder. There is an argument that he shifted what his legacy would have been if he had left at the end of the first term. We talk about civil rights that also includes gay rights, it includes helping bring the administration around a Marriage Equality but this is the department of justice that could have had a role in nsa spying. Who would want this job at this point . It will be eight years but no matter what happens the next two years whenever history looks back at the Obama Administration you think the attorney general is eric holder. That is where the mission was set. I have seen these names float and big names like Duval Patrick in massachusetts. You have a little less than two years in the job and sort of the worst two years in any administration. This is a job more for sort of a place holder at this point. Or somebody making transition. A lot of names mentioned are solicitor general. And also maybe a senator. So maybe the senator wont be so cumela harris from california. She could be governor of california in a couple of years you are side tracking yourself. And governor of who knows what else. It has to be somebody inside who knows everybody and doesnt have bugs on them and slide through without too much nonsense. You dont want to wait until the next session. Definitely not wait until the next session. You give up too much option if you do it now. I dont think it will be a woman. Nominate a woman for the lame duck part of the administration i think would look weird. I think they are going to choose like a place holder type person. The big variable is decent chance republicans take that to senate. If that happens you have to do it in the lame duck. You dont want to say we are going to bet on holding off to the senate. So it means if that is true a name should be coming very soon. Point out that reuters is reporting that two british fighter jets were seen leaving a royal air site in cyprus. For now my thanks to military analyst jack jacobs for joining us this morning. Next a senate seat republicans thought that can take democrats slipping from their grasp. Thats still ahead. I will embrace change everything life throws my way. Except for frown lines. Those im throwing back. Olay total effects nourishing vitamins and seven beautiful benefits in one. For youngerlooking skin. 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