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Presidents have defined the war powers act as not restricting their freedom to go into panama, grenada and all these other engagements. the counter argument from these members of congress and these are serious senators like jim web and dick luger is that this is more serious because this is a mission, a diplomatic mission that's not been 134r5i7b xplain support of the military, we do not know who the opposition leaders are. we don't know whether the target is gadhafi or not and if gadhafi remains as admiral mullen said on sunday which is one option and does that make america appear weaker in t...

Won. these are things must be debated here in washington quite apart from paris or, at least, encounters with other countries in which we say we'll hold you coat. we don't object to what you're up to. >> the indiana senator's critique was echoed on the other side of the aisle from virginia democrat jim webb. >> we have a military operation that's been put into play but we the not have a clear diplomatic policy or a clear statement of foreign policy that's a accompanying this military operation. we know we don't like the gadhafi regime but we don't have a clear picture of who the opposition mov...

The strikes in libya. we heard about lugar and webb. who else is going after the president here? >> the president is getting criticism from democrats and republicans. you have senator webb of virginia, a democrat, former marine, former navy secretary saying congress has been on auto pilot when it comes to overseas action. he wants congress more involved. john cornyn of texas, a republican says the president is treating congress like a potted plant. congress is saying not that the president needed their consent or they are opposed to it, but they want the president to go beyond notifying them. ...

Got to make that link. people don't always take the time to make that link. they want to know what's going on immediately. i think that we have real problems that are now being overwhelmed by a lot of the global coverage of these things, not to minimize what they are but to say there's a lot of problems out here. >> reverend al, stay with us. andrea, thanks for sticking around. who do you have on your show today at 1:00. we have senator lugar and senator webb and ed markey. >> i like that. lugar, webb and markey. not bad. 1:00, msnbc, 1:00 eastern time. andrea mitchell, thank you so much. >>...

Responsible as secretary of defense. >> why are you leaving the senate? >> ha-ha-ha. well, i think six years is a good period of time to be in the senate. i intend to remain fully involved in the issues, even though i'm leaving in two years. >> thank you. i want to ask you more about that later. i want to know what's wrong with the senate, i am curious. you seem like a good guy. thank you. senator webb from virginia. when we return, let me turn to the man on the stage. there he is now, how i am going to remember that guy. he is the guy that broke the blacklist. kirk douglas.