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Saying it's more of an update. it is the president's first pentagon visit since the terror attacks in san bernardino and in paris. candidates with the far right national front party in france coming up short in regional elections. the anti-immigration platform got off to a roaring start after the paris attacks but finished third behind the conservative party and socialist party. the party's leaders plan to be on the presidential ballot in 2017. >> a week-long cease-fire beginning today in yemen after nine long months of civil war. u.n.-led peace talks between the warring sides are set to beg...

Against her. let's not lose sight of the fact that she has incredibly high negatives. a majority of americans in polls said they find her untrustworthy and dishonest. a different way of looking at this is to say it's remarkable she runs so well, given those high negatives. >> okay, michael smerconish, we see you in position. we'll see you out there in a couple of hours. thanks so much. looking forward to it. >> look forward to it. thank you. >> over to michaela. the san bernardino terror attack ramping up the urgency to destroy and defeat isis. the white house has called for war authorizatio...

Those detainees here, damages our ability to conduct that war. it threatens our relationships with our allies. it helps recruiting for terrorists. and it's too costly. those are decisions that are at the core of a commander in chief's power under the constitution. and i think he has the authority on his own to close guantanamo and bring the detainees wherever he wants within the united states in a military facility. as commander in chief, he has that authority, i think he should use it. >> it's interesting, you say, let me pause you there. you say, we're a nation at war. so what you're saying ...

Military involvement in syria. >> congress in 2001 did give the executive branch authorization to take this action. and there's no debating that. what the president has said he would welcome is congress passing an authorization to use military force. to be more specific about what exactly they're authorizing. so it's not just the president would welcome congress taking that step. the administration actually wrote the bill for them. >> that's our own kristin welker who was asking josh earnest about that. kristin, i have to say, i've heard that line about the war authorization from josh earnest,...

So i think the idea that they would be directly in the position of a russian strike, that's not the case. but we have to make it very clear, we can't accept that. >> the president made this decision, using a war authorization that george w. bush asked for nearly 15 years ago. we've been told there's going to be a new authorization. we've been told there was going to be a new authorization for this entire isil strategy. we still don't have it. they're using the 2001 aumf. is this appropriate? >> i think it's appropriate in the region you point out. it's been 15 years, there are terrorists attac...