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isis is trying to do, and how well it's doing it. but we begin with chief white house correspondent ed henry. what the president is trying to do and avoid. good evening, ed. >> good evening, bret. president obama decides to not completely decide. critics on the right, he's taking some military action while reassuring nervous allies on the left that this will not become mission creep. declaring the fate of iraq now hangs in the balance. president obama edged the military back into the persian gulf, deploying up to 300 military advisers to counsel the yirgy military, protect the embass...

0 house relented and the president called wyden. i know you guys are going to talk to wyden later. but this is a very big deal because now the drone policy is going to be central to this confirmation hearing today. >> you know, yesterday pete wehner wrote this. and he's quoting barack obama from may 29th, 2009, the famous speech at the national archives. where he says, let me be clear. we are at war with al qaeda, but we need to update our institutions and do so with an abiding confidence in the rule of law and due process. in checks and balances and accountability for reasons i will explain, ...

Quote, i can find no way around the thicket of laws and precedents that effectively allow the executive branch of our government to proclaim as perfectly lawful certain actions that seem on their face incompatible with our constitution and laws while keeping the reasons for their conclusion a secret. quote, the alice in wonderland nature of this pronouncement is not lost on me. she added that she was omping in a legal environment that amounted to a veritable catch-22. john brennan faces his confirmation hearing to be the head of the cia on thursday this week. he will face questions from senato...

0 even though that was an almost first day priority for president obama. he still says he would like to close guantanamo, just as george w. bush said he wanted to close guantanamo. we have congress to thank for the fact that it's still open. congress has blocked the president's options for closing that offshore prison. but notice also that not a single new terrorism suspect, not a single new prisoner has been added to guantanamo since president obama has been in office. people have left by a number of different means, but nobody knew has shown up since barack obama was sworn in as president. w...

Other. we'll see if it can be done. >> we'll see. oregon democratic senator john wyden, thank you for being here. i hope you're right. >> it's the only way out. >> if you're watching this show while staying at a fanlsy resort in park city, utah, you might be a big time mitt romney donor in town to schmooze the candidate himself. you almost certainly are not a big time barack obama donor because there aren't as many oz of the these days and that has a big implication where public policy is going to look going forward. that story is next. one that continually monitors and corrects for wheel slip...