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In the "crossfire," senator sheldon whitehouse, a rhode island democrat. and senator john hovan, a north dakota republican. did the president set a dangerous precedent or bring home a hero? tonight on "crossfire." welcome to "crossfire." i'm van jones on the left. >> i'm s. e. cupp on the right. tonight, u.s. army sergeant bowe bergdahl is free but there are too many serious questions to ask before we can all celebrate his return. why did president obama leave congress in the dark? why would we release five high-level terrorists to exchange for a guy who many in the military consider to be a...

President of the coal industry. and because states like mine get very little benefit from coal. >> do they count? >> they do count and that's why there's so much flexibility for them to be able to achieve that in their coal industry. but in rhode island, it's a cost that the coal industry always forgets or pretends isn't real and i will submit and i will agree that in john's state and in joe manchin's stays, there is a need to go in and be prepared to help the coal industry with this transition. i accept that. what i don't accept is them pretending is that ten inches of sea level rise isn't re...

This is clearly going to be at the top of the president's agenda as he meets with our eu partners. we earlier last week, myself and the senator from north dakota john hovan said one of the ways we can weaken mr. putin is if america takes a more aggressive position vis-a-vis energy security, as was mentioned here. europe depends upon russia for gas and oil. we said to the administration go ahead and expedite and pass the number of permits that are being before the administration now, so that more american natural gas can be actually -- could be exported to europe. that's not going to change thi...

Bipartisan bill if you won't let them vote on an amendment. >> john, correct me if i'm wrong. jim inhofe, one of the most conservative guy -- >> tried to get some amendments. >> jim said, as i understand it, we have 25 amendments. the republicans were given 25 amendments, the democrats were given 25 amendments, inhofe said, that's good. yet we couldn't get republican support to go forward with 25 amendments. >> he came and said he'll try to get 25. so far we've gotten, what, none? one vote. one vote. >> no, no, no. my understanding is twl has been an agreement, 25-muss -- give you another issu...

Deliberative body, but i believe it has to work for the american people. i think the actions that senator reid took today was on behalf of the american people to make the senate function. it's not functioning. >> i think it's interesting the senate, which after all has passed a number of important things this year, wasn't functioning for the president on his terms, and this was one more step to give president obama even more power and even more control. it's interesting to me that every democrat who is up for reelection next year except one voted to give president obama more power, and i suspe...