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>> not only do we not know, congress doesn't know. you have had members of congress complaining constantly that the administration isn't keeping them in the loop on foreign policy, particularly iran, but across the board, and usually i feel like you'd have something happening, and you would have a lot of congressional support because iran has been such a bad actor on the world stage but because this administration has sewn such distrust or mistrust among members of congress and, you know, the country frankly, people who aren't absolutely supportive, there's a loud outcry. there's already conve...

His staff a little bit in front of a couple lawmakers. is this setting up a clear fight that doesn't necessarily have an end game given the stakes we're facing in september? >> i think that's right. inc. the president kno-- i thin the president needs to show his base something he has not accomplished. this is the central piece of his campaign. he needs to show them he's doing something. he doesn't know, the congress doesn't know, the democrats know they're not giving him anything for this. in his budget document, the president campaigned on a limited national debt. that is such an insane propo...

The secretary of defense to be briefing him about the first time is truly stunning. and we will see a lot of heat in the weeks to come about what kind of mission we're on, why the congress doesn't know. part of this is on them. they refused to take up a vote for aumf. despite a few sponsors like senator mccain who talked about the need for it, if you ask them privately, no one wants to sign up for that. >> let's look at what happened the last time authorization or use of military force was debated at a robust level. president obama went to congress. whatever people think about his waffling on ...

Secretary of state creating this government records, that's in the public purchase view and we should be able to see those. >> eric: does she have privacy rights? >> no, these are documents that are federal records. the public has the right to see these. >> eric: what do you think is in them? >> we don't no. congress doesn't know. congress is feckless and infecttive. when you issue a subpoena it isn't worth the paper it's written on. you have to go back to the department of justice. you have to enforce that subpoena, go to the same department of justice that you are trying to do an investigati...

Washington, d.c. is an alturnt universe where people talk about policies void of facts, void of the information you need to solve a problem. so my first point right now is we don't have enough information, i don't have the feedback from constituencies who have not had time to review the senate bill. we should have started the process reaching out to the democrats, pointing out the fact that obamacare didn't work. it did drive premiums up nationally. in some places three times has been the increase in premiums. let's repair that and transition something that works. >> look, you just described w...