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Weapons against your people. and i know that he used chlorine bombs against his people, and that's bad. but sarin gas is a whole nother level of horrible. so i think it was important. i supported that strike because it was important just as a punitive strike, not as the start of any kind of ongoing or new military campaign, although of course we have almost 1,000 people, troops in syria right now. in afghanistan, we have an ongoing war. all he did was use a different kind of bomb. i mean really i think it's a little overhyped. on north korea, i'm very concerned because north korea, the leader ...

So with the public that anxious, both on the left and on the right about the idea of war, why do you suppose that it's so reflexive among even your democratic colleagues to support any kind of a military strike. it just gets applause across the board in the halls of congress. >> well, of course the threats are real, and we have not had a debate, joy. we have not really looked at what a comprehensive strategy is, what it means, what it entails. we do not know what the military options entail. military option's always there if there's in fact a threat. we haven't even had a debate. quite natural...

And for what. it has been used over 37 times in 14 countries for many, many actions non-related to 9/11. so for the last seven or eight years, i have been trying to repeal this. each time that a defense authorization or appropriation bill comes up, i provide an amendment, which of course doesn't pass, but we're up to maybe 140 or 150 votes, and i'm going to continue to do this until we get to 218 because minimally, we should come back to congress. we should repeal this resolution, have a debate and a vote on a new authorization for these war footings which we are in a variety now of wars that ...

With xi, you know, where they have the summit. it sounds like donald trump and president xi, president trump and president xi agreed they needed to do more on north korea. and president trump seems pretty optimistic that china is going to deliver something. to my mind, the pressure should be coming from china. it should be economic and from the international community. but the military pressure does make me nervous because there you run into a huge danger of miscalculation. we've got over 28,000 troops in south korea. of course millions of south koreans are sitting there, sitting ducks in you ...

Bombs against his people, and that's bad. but sarin gas is a whole nother level of horrible. so i think it was important. i supported that strike because it was important just as a punitive strike, not as the start of any kind of ongoing or new military campaign, although of course we have almost 1,000 people, troops in syria right now. in afghanistan, we have an ongoing war. all he did was use a different kind of bomb. i mean really i think it's a little overhyped. on north korea, i'm very concerned because north korea, the leader is not irrational. what he wants is to stay in power. he wants...