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If for this, the president of the united states needs to go to congress, this is changing our conception of executive power over the last 30 or 40 years, it's been settled by both parties that because of the nature of america's responsibilities in the war, the president does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent plan...

It's been settled by both parties that because of the nature of america's responsibilities in the war, the president does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent planes in to tripoli or whatever, killed a bunch of people, including relatives of gadhafi. >> president clinton bombed iraq for a few days. that was a classi...

President does have the leeway to act in situations like this that are not really full scale war. >> so many examples, american presidents using military force without congressional authorization. you remember when ronald reagan was president, gadhafi was accused of bombing a disco tech in germany, killing american soldiers. he sent planes in to tripoli or whatever, killed a bunch of people, including relatives of gadhafi. >> president clinton bombed iraq for a few days. that was a classic case, where at the margins it probably accomplished a little bit, and there's no congressional authorizat...

>> it's important to keep in mind drones are the latest in military force. you go from bayonets to tank to artillery and planes and other presidents have used military force before the war on terror. when i worked for president reagan, we bombed libya because we did not like the fact that the libyans were alleged to have killed some americans in berlin, in west berlin, in a disco tech. president clinton attacked afghanistan after we were blown up and also sedan. this is where osama bin laden had been before he got to afghanistan. i think what the president did was very courageous because this ...

>> well, let's take two examples. in the first place when we have not responded to attacks against us or against our personnel overseas what's happened? they've been -- the next step is an even bigger attack. cobart towers we didn't respond to that. the usscole bombing we didn't respond to that. al-qaida grew and grew, first world trade bombing we didn't respond to that. al-qaida came back a second time to the world trade center. by doing nothing and not being tough and not row tal kwraeuting, what we've told them, free reign, go and do it again. i want to contrast that to the reagan administr...