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>> do you support the resolution? >> i do -- >> let me ask you this. here's the problem. the president is trying to square a circle here. he wants to keep the progressives with them that are skeptical of the involvement in the middle east. at the same time he wants to bring in mccain and win the support of apac and neocons. then we have this language -- now, may be refined in the process of being refined, but basically enough to get the mccain crowd to support this resolution out of the senate foreign relations committee. it talks about the president coming forth in 30 days of this for a plan ...

You cannot use this kind of weapon. but now it looks like we're trying to figure out how we can extend that and help the rebels and decide who is going in next. and i don't -- i -- it leaves me with a very uneasy feeling, because we're in a neighborhood where you have not only the russians sitting there, but you also have the iranians. and i worry that we are going to slide into something that we just have not anticipated. >> congresswoman blackburn, why do you think they need a 90-day resolution for a two-day war? >> i think that they're trying to figure out a way to get something off the sen...

Torn between their loyalty to the president, these are african-american members of congress and the opposition by constituents to any involvement in this war who may make or break the president's request for approval of the attack on syria. according to foreign policy magazine and the hill magazine, the leader of the congressional black caucus, congresswoman marcia fudge asked the congress members to limit their comments while nancy pelosi makes the push for the president. one of the members breaking her silence right now is representative barbara lee, a california democratic congresswoman fro...

The president has the power to act without congress. recent president's have done it before. and the recent presidents they'll point to include obama's intervention in libya. even the broad theory of executive power that was at issue there, right? we have authority to act as commander in chief without congressional authorization, despite the fact that the constitution gives the power to declare war to congress, as long as we don't do something that amounts to war under the constitution, right? that's the limits on the president's current theory. here the resolution the administration put forwa...

Being killed by gas and you want to go talk about benghazi and fast and furious. we don't deserve to drag this into yet another benghazi discussion when the real issue here is whether or not the congress is going to stand up for international norms with respect to dictators that have only been broken twice until assad. hitler and saddam hussein. >> that guy's a walking clown show. anyway, the washington examiner reports that the influential conservative group heritage action has come out against the president's syria resolution. they may end up scoring gop lawmakers positions on it. in terms o...