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That's in violation of the owner's religious beliefs. let me begin with you, congressman goodlatte. what do you think is at stake here in terms of executive powers? how do you expect the court to rule? >> well, in that case, i think the statute itself as interpreted by the president violates the first amendment of the constitution. i'm hoping the court will uphold the rights of individuals for their expression of their religious freedoms. now, the end does not justify the means in these cases. a 9-0 decision last week was the 13th time the supreme court has voted 9-0 that the president has exc...

Secondly, even if you go forward and even if the courts accept this suit, by the time it gets all the way through all of the legal machinations, barack obama will be out of office. >> well, first of all, with regard to the powers the constitution provides the congress, there are several. the power of legislation, the power of the purse. we have in the senate the power to confirm appointments, which was what the supreme court decision was all about. we have the power of oversight, holding hearings. but we also have the power to bring causes of action when we believe that the president of the un...

Secondly, even if you go forward and even if the courts accept this suit, by the time it gets all the way through all of the legal machinations, barack obama will be out of office. >> well, first of all, with regard to the powers the constitution provides the congress, there are several. the power of legislation, the power of the purse. we have in the senate the power to confirm appointments, which was what the supreme court decision was all about. we have the power of oversight, holding hearings. but we also have the power to bring causes of action when we believe that the president of the un...

The government, which is part of the reason iraqi troops were crumbling. isis still controls a god chunk of the country, but the government's made some gains this weekend trying to retake tikrit. and it's getting some help from russia, which is sending a couple dozen second-hand war planes, which can be used against ground forces and mobile targets. they're also sending trainers for iraqi pilots. that'll set up a rare case of u.s. and russian military advisers in the same country battling the same enemy, though neither the russian trainers nor the u.s. advisers are expected to see combat. mean...

Intelligence reports there were pretty strong. look, this isn't limited to this administration. anybody who's done intelligence knows what the burden of proof is for what i would call the unpleasant fact. and there you really have to marshal a great deal of evidence to impress upon any decision maker or policymaker something that is really inconsistent with what he thinks his policy preferences might be. >> and in this case, you think he went with his policy preferences over the intel? >> chris, we created a vision when we went to zero with the number of forces in iraq that this was going to b...