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Continuing our breaking news, the announcement expected momentarily from the white house that we are expanding the u.s. military operations, particularly special forces who are going to be deployed in northern syria. joining me, senator angus king of maine, member of the armed services and intelligence committees. let's talk about whether or not this war is authorized under the u.s. constitution. we have now been according to senator kane and others, we have been militarily operating against isis for 15 months plus without any war authorization from the congress of the united states. >> i thin...

It's a question of who will flinch first. elise, thank you so much for that. joining me to discussing it is congressman chaffetz of utah. thanks so much for being here with us. as i said, a lot to discuss. first we saw today the president make a rare appearance from the pentagon. he said this fight against isis will not be quick. but he did not mention a war authorization from congress. congressman, if this is going to be a long fight, in your view does the president need that authorization? >> well he should. he should make the case for the american people. i sense more resolve from him, a ...

Learned, leaving aside the question of what you think of ann gellar and what went on before we speculated that we might have had people at isis that had been triggered, we now have people that isis can trigger. the problem here is going to get bigger. the president pretends it isn't coming here. every victory they win brings them closer and closer to these shores because we are not winning the hearts and minds and we're not winning on the battlefield. >> and we have the director of the fbi, james comey, who said that there are probably thousands of agents inside this country. he's not a politi...

Learned, leaving aside the question of what you think of ann gellar and what went on before we speculated that we might have had people at isis that had been triggered, we now have people that isis can trigger. the problem here is going to get bigger. the president pretends it isn't coming here. every victory they win brings them closer and closer to these shores because we are not winning the hearts and minds and we're not winning on the battlefield. >> and we have the director of the fbi, james comey, who said that there are probably thousands of agents inside this country. he's not a politi...

Things that were not able to know is things she decided to delete and say they weren't part of the state department business. when we get that batch and see these e-mails, know these are things she already turned over and her lawyers and team have green lighted. >> let's go to congress and speaker john boehner is asking president obama to resubmit a war authorization request against isis. we saw yesterday at the daily briefing the white house pushing back significantly on who is to blame for the slowdown or where we are right now, the stalemate. >> right. the white house is saying congress, if...