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the league and political battles over abortion. one of the nation's pose conservative courts weighing it as state legislatures in north and south carolina take new action to ban the procedure. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." let's get right to cnn's exclusive reporting on new evidence in the trump classified documents investigation. cnn special correspondent jamie gangel broke the story for us, jamie, tell us what you're learning. >> reporter: wolf, cnn has obtained this letter from the nationa...

>> can you imagine how scary it must have been to stand up and say that? we were so terrorized and terrorized as a country, but to have that courage of conviction, to have that sense of purpose and moral compass, to have the bravery to stand up and say, "this horrific act has maybe come to a different conclusion than all the rest of you, that every other member congress." imagine what that took in the moment . california congresswoman barbara lee was the household member of congress who decided that date that the tragedy of 9/11 just days earlier, horrible as it was, was not a good justificati...

132 upper house members voted with barbara lee against authorizing the use of force for the iraq war. that was not enough to stop the bill, so instead of one forever war, america had two then. this year will mark 20 years, and congresswoman barbara lee took that first soul vote against america's unending war . legal authorization allowed america to use military force in the name of 9/11 in a way that was unedited and global. during the time that those authorizations for use of force have remained in place, they have been used as justification for all kinds of military interventions all around ...

And moral compass, to have the bravery to stand up and say this horrific act has made me come to a different conclusion than all the rest of you, then every other member of congress. imagine what that took in the moment? california congresswoman barbara lee was the sole member of congress who decided that day that the tragedy of 9/11, days earlier, horrible as it was, was not a good justification for an open-ended legal authorization to get the u.s. involved anywhere in the world in what would become decades of war. a year later, the house was set to vote on yet another blanket authorization f...

This year will mark 20 years since congressman barbara lee took that first vote against americas an ending wars. illegal authorization that allowed america to use military force in the name of 9/11 in a way that was an ended and global. during the time those authorizations for the use of force have remained in place, they've been used as justification for all kinds of military interventions all around the world, even ones that had precisely zero to do with iraq or afghanistan or 9/11. it became a blanket authorization for the use of military force at the presidents say so that congress ever ha...