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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 ...

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 thre. we haven't even had a debate. quite naturally, members of congress are really ...

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 will. >> and the vice president is in south korea as well. lastly, matt, where is congress in all this? i feel like this debate is what they should be having right now. >> sadly you only have barbara lee and some members of the freedom caucus. there's 100 republicans who challenged obama on libya, and rightfull...

This was sort of standard operating procedure for intelligence agencies. i mean there is a legitimate issue here on the unmasking of american officials who show up in the surveillance of foreign governments. but it's just so odd how the white house in this case has sort of used nunes and damaged his credibility over such a seemingly minuscule matter, this tweet. you just sort of wonder whether nunes is such an important ally for the administration, whether they might have wanted to preserve his credibility for more important developments later on in this russia story. >> mr. quickly, a couple ...

Like, that i've heard everything that was short and others saying it was 20 short. >> they had about 35 votes against the bill. i think they're pretty far off. in terms of the freedom caucus, there's some discussion on the hill that is interesting. congressman labrador, who is part of the freedom caucus, responded to the president's trump. he said look, remember who your friends are. on the campaign trail, the freedom caucus stood up for candidate trump when paul ryan disinvited him from the rally. now the white house is blaming the conservatives on the hill. >> neil: and that's a change. righ...