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Gained out of that? >> well, i think it was again a demonstration of the enormous capacity of this jsop tool to use intelligence, collected in a variety of ways along with an air force team to get people in and out of defended targets. it was a good thing. it worked brilliantly. i'm sure over the coming weeks they will exploit a massive a of information, where was the oil going out of turkey who was handling it, how is the money. so i think it was a first rate operation. but i think that what has astonished me is the confusion of roles in congress and the administration wanting to hold hearing...

Failed foreign policy presidents this country has had. i don't cheer that. i hope this turns around on a dime. i would love to see the president restore american leadership around the globe. i will be the first person cheering him on to do it but i haven't seen the indication of that. martha: we know what the president requested in congress would not include any ground troops. you were in iraq fought in afghanistan i believe. you can correct me if i'm wrong on that. >> yes. martha: spoke with a former navy seal who fought in anbar province recently. he said, we know how to do this. >> right. m...

Alive. the concern about drugeon, he has the skills and knowledge on how on make bombs to potentially bypass airport security measures. the fact he is still alive causes a good deal of concern to u.s. officials. they also believe the leader of the group, a man named fattli is still alive after months of u.s. air strikes. this is a group of hard core al qaeda operatives that move from pakistan to syria over the last several years. it is a group that causes the u.s. great deal of concern because of their abilities and desire to potentially attack the united states. john, christine. >> barbara st...

Four to five ships in the mediterranean after congress says go ahead? i mean, the entire big picture what's happening here potentially, are you more comfortable with that if congress says go? >> certainly. that's the constitutional responsibility of the 535 members of congress, senate and house, that have that constitutional responsibility to declare war. and in fact, this is an act of war. we have done this in the past. it was done after 9/11 with the authorization use of force, it has been ignored far too often and we've had presidents simply assuming that they have the authority to go launc...

Other members of congress who have been pushing for something to get rid of the old authorization use of military force. we're going to see, i think in congressional action, whether, how that plays out. >> so you don't think he has a timeframe that, perhaps, limits, takes action within this second term, for example? >> oh, i think -- >> as an aspiration, he'd like -- >> i would hope so. i think in the second term we will see -- >> when you heard him speaking about drone strikes, i was reminded of what faisal shishad, he said, when the bomb drones they don't see the children. the idea that this...