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Been very measured and response rightly so. we saw he himself say he called off a potential response because he thought it was disproportionate. he doesn't want to escalate this crisis and as you just heard him say, he thinks we have plenty of time. we got out of the iran deal which gave them resources to spread chaos and i think they are feeling the fiscal pinch which is helpful in the long term. >> trace: when you talk about this war authorization act that was passed after 9/11, the pentagon says this whole vote thing in the senate right now, the pentagon is against this because they think i...

Coming from democrats in the senate to have a war authorization act and so far resistance from the white house, so a lot of questions as to whether or not this mission really was, according to, you know, violating the u.s. rules of war. >> reporter: well, what the u.s. -- what the pentagon has said and military officials i have spoken to have said is that this was an extraordinary case, that there was a request by kurdish forces who are based here in -- where i am right now in northern iraq, in the kurdistan region, and that there was imminent threat that the hostages were going to be executed...

Before the midterms. so just do it and don't bring us to it. that was outrageous. once the midterms were over it was up to congress to take this matter up if we hadn't done it before. but we're now five months into the new year and congress hasn't said a mumbling word about it. it's disrespectful to the troops. and next week allies from the middle east are coming to meet with the president here in washington about the iranian threat. and they're also going to talk about the war on isil. and they're going to look at america and say, hey, so congress hasn't talked about this at all? do you think...

Vision for the remainder of his term and he'll bring up how, if ever, does congress rescind this war authorization act that sat there right after 9/11 that of course allows the administration today to do all it does with drones and some other covert operations. we'll have live coverage of that speech tomorrow right here on msnbc. time now for the next number in today's data bank. 70. that's the number of days until michigan holds its primary. guess what, it now appears that john conyers will be on the ballot. a federal judge ordered conyers back on the ballot on friday afternoon, only hours ...