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Would be acceptable to nancy pelosi. so what does this mean? does it mean anything that the select committee is getting bigger responsibilities? >> i think so. you normally don't see something like this on capitol hill where people are protective of their congressional turf, committees say this is our jurisdiction, butt out, usually you have head butting in overlapping jurisdictions. they've decided we need to synchronize everything. we need to have one simple narrative. the january 6th committee is going to get going pretty aggressively on subpoenas. they're not going to ask for trump officia...

A member of congress abdicating their turf, essentially, to another member. >> thank you, to the three of you, for kicking us off this evening, susan page, sam stein, and dr. vin gupta. we appreciate that. the delta variant is now dominating louisiana. we will now check in with a doctor at one of the nation's hardest hit hospitals. and the january 6th matter deserves the truth. we will talk to some americans who are eager to ignore. we are just getting underway on a thursday night. a thursday night ♪ i never needed anyone. ♪ front desk. yes, hello... i'm so... please hold. ♪ those days a...

We're going to have to put mitch mcconnell on a milk carton soon because nobody has seen the senate majority leader. why will he not bring anything to the floor? >> i have no idea. over many years i've been amazed to see congress abdicating its responsibilities of what it's supposed to do under the constitution. we're giving more powers and more powers to the executive, not just president trump but many executives before him. >> understood. >> after 9/11, things were a little different because we thought, my goodness, we have to protect our country. that being said, we're to the point where th...

Time and it was weak then. none the less, congress is complicit in this and's nothing keeps us from taking up a vote and we ought to do that without delay. >> you have been uncharacteristically quiet about this. true you could argue towards the end of the bush administration, certainly all of the obama administration and now a continuation of it, which is, congress abdicating its constitutionalality to own the war because you don't want to own the consequences so just let the presidents do whatever they want to do and the proof we saw most recently, congressman, the applause that the president...

Administration. >> congress member moulton, thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> let's get to chris. >> it shows we now have a historic tradition of congress abdicating its constitutional duty to debate and declare war of two american presidents. how will that play out? president trump does seem politically to make a huge shift. america first. stay out of meddling abroad. now he takes a military strike at syria. how does he justify it? how does it impact his position on refugees? we have an adviser to the president next. ♪ energy is amazing. how we use it is only limited by our imaginat...