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Do you believe that the president should have gotten authorization from congress and if so, had he asked, would you have approved that. >> well the president has authorization generically as commander in chief under article 2 of the constitution as mann commander in chief. we gave a explicit authorization in the middle east back after 9/11 after the middle east campaigns under the first president bushs and also under president obama. he didn't need specific authorization for this, but had he asked for it i would have voted to give it to him. i thought he did the right thing. >> do you find whe...

>> the majority of the folks would agree with you. focus of the question is did russia have anything to do with the timing? >> i don't have a comment on that, because i would hope the russians, instead of trying to deny that it happened, i wish they would join us in condemning the attack. but whether they knew about it beforehand, i don't have any information to make a judgment on that. >> in terms of the syrian strategy, and you heard the commentary help, representative, about the way it has come about for this administration. do you believe that the syrian strategy coming from the white hous...

Retaliatory strikes on the u.s., or france or the uk. there's no more talk of war here, but plenty of verbal things flying from the russians coming fast and furious throughout the day. russian officials calling these strikes unlawful, unacceptable, president putin putting out a statement saying the u.s. is aggravating the humanitarian situation inside syria and of course calling for that u.n. resolution which was voted down. some pretty fierce words coming from russia's ambassador to the u.n. >> russia condemns in the strongest possible terms the attack against syria where russian military per...

Are critical, is that -- happened the day after the treasury department issued those sanctions against russian weapons firm for supplying weapons to syria, any linkages there sir you might take away from that? >> first of all, it's not alleged attack. it happened. people die the. people were dem he chemically d. we have eyewitnesses, photographs. attack happened. syrian government is responsible for it. there are eyewitnesses of russian-made -- least one russian-made helicopter. it's not an alleged attack. it happened. you can argue perhaps that the russians didn't approve it, didn't know abou...

There in syria? no. i think they equate the americans, british, french as sort of 20th century cloolonial powers, the syrian government is a very paranoid group of people and look at the united states and view france and britain as almost american lackeys. by contrast, having the three countries stand together in the united stations security council was a very good signal to the russians that it's no the just russia and the united states. >> is it the u.n. and the resolution that was formed basically founded this attack, or made reason for this attack, in the last 24 hours, is it still effec...