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Claim. secondly, and most importantly, police officers, unless they go out of the scope of their duty, are almost always immune. it's what we call sovereign immunity. in other words, you can't sue the king. similarly, you can't sue the government in most cases unless they let you. and the general rule is, as long as the police officer didn't act outside the scope of his duty, statements that he makes in the course of his duties as a public official will leave him immune from lawsuits like defamation. >> okay, who knows. if you have ever been a person of interest and cleared, whether it really ...

This whole thing, did he not. >> that's right. >> why is that? martha: he stepped past the war powers moment. he had the moment and didn't act. then he went to congress to get their approval. he may say that tonight, brad. he may say, if they don't do what they say they will do i use my presidential power and strike. >> why go to congress? mr. president you made the determination you wanted congress's advise and consent. you could have acted on your own. you said you had power to do it. you had executive power under the constitution under war powers act and you abdicated to congress. martha: b...

>> you make a very good point. thank you both so much. >> thank you. >> thank you. from capitol hill to wall street america america is runs out of ideas. stick around and find out why from my next guest. um... where's mrs. davis?

The president has handled the situation this week. if it's such a dire situation as he's trying to tell democrats and republicans who are against this, then why did you go play politics by going to congress? why did you wait two years to act? why did you wait for 110,000 people to be killed in syria? he's got a really bad set of principles here to go try to sell it to the american people tuesday night, and i think most people are saying we're not buying into how bad it is because look how long you've waited to do this. >> we just got a little bit of time left. i want to ask a question to elyse...

Erstwhile nato ally, sharing a border with israel. it's a serious foreign policy crisis but the point fareed made is you don't want to oversell this as something larger than it is. i think that's where the administration has failed thus far. >> you brought up chemical weapons. are chemical weapons something worse here in general than what we normally see in warfare? chemical weapons seem to represent something different in our society and in our world culture. what if it had been a tactical nuclear weapon that killed 1,000 people? would there be this debate right now about whether the u.s. sho...