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Engagements, getting the facts out, you're a member of congress, the democrats control the house, you can pass if the leadership is behind it, right? you can attach some rider to the defense authorization act which is needed as part of the appropriations process for the entire military, right? >> absolutely. >> that says you cannot strike iran. is that the plan to pass that rider? do you have buy in for that? >> well, as you know, barbara lee is attached to the biggest appropriations bill. the authorization does not apply to iran. in addition to that, we have some legislators with legislation ...

Use it to go into war without coming before congress. so a lot is going on. to try to make sure that we don't allow this president making unilateral decisions to go into war and strike iran, and we just think that any little incident could cause us to go in. we think he's not having the advice of advisers who would make sure that he does not bumble and stumble into war, he doesn't have anybody around him, he doesn't have a defense secretary. he doesn't have people -- mr. bolton and mr. pompeo, they're war hawks and we're worried about the advice they're giving him. >> is house leadership, the ...

Time the state department was involved that had an office that actually reviewed pardon decisions as a matter of policy process. what this president has done, which we have not seen in centuries literally, is the president making unilateral decisions, not just disregarding a recommendation that might be made from the office of the pardon after a justice department review, but absolutely 100% bypassing any of that policy process. so i think that he is looking toward ways to expand his presidency and he's seeing how far the other branches of government are going to let him get away with it. z >>...

Better. five months ago, the president was saying he did not think talks with north korea were the way to go. but with this invitation from kim jong-un, he certainly seems to have changed his mind here, fred. >> all right, the world will see if he can do it better. kaitlan collins, thank you so much, at the white house. let's talk more about this, joining me, reporter, editor at large of cnn politics, chris cillizza and cnn senior political reporter nia malika henderson. the chaos of this white house was on full display in the past 24 hours in the north korea decision and the tariff announce...

First prescription free at mybreo.com aside from john boehner's lawsuit against the president for unilateral changes to the health care law without congressional approval, the changes raise a second issue, the impact on taxpayers. >> there's another equally important question about the president making unilateral changes to obamacare whether the many changes and delays are robbing the revenue. >> we're looking at a cost of about $200 billion a year. right now the savings that was projected to fay fpay for all t saving is not being paid as projected. >> in fact, to delay parts of