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Months in yemen we hear about a drone strike or some sort of operation, fuzzy on the details, likely perhaps some special forces, drone strikes, whatever it is, that gets rid of an al qaeda in yemen operative. this is in many ways a message from the president. look. he would do more if he had fame in the iraqi government but yesterday's announcement was not having faith in the iraqi government, trying to to see if you send kerry over there to basically send the message to maliki, leader, leave. either do the job or get out and let's see if somebody else can do it. in the meantime, use at least...

Look, this is about isis or this is about this specific group that is wreaking havoc in syria and in iraq? >> actually, it's a broader issue than that, though, in my view. mainly because maliki has failed to do what he absolutely needed to do, that is bring in the sunni community into the coalition. it's been a shia/sunni confrontation with the sunnis feeling correctly, i think, shutout. bremer started that. maliki has continued that. i think that's part of the problem, but not all of the problem. you have a group, whether it's in syria, in iraq, in iran that very much wants to see their group...

President, it was interesting and perhaps even wise to know the president -- the sources are saying, listen, boots on the ground is not an option. they've made that at least clear before talking about the other options. >> well, look, there's a few things we got to remember legally. legally there is still a war authorization that is active that congress passed that does give the president a lot of leeway to do whatever he wants in iraq frankly. at this point when it comes to military issues. this isn't a case where he necessarily needs to go to congress to make some decision on various aspects...

Size. >> i think you right, because we're a bit -- because the media in this country, mostly the corporate media has cut back so much on foreign coverage, we don't really know what's going on over there so we set up a nice traup to understand it through the prism of our president and their president. rudy giuliani is impatient with democracy because he was bad about it when he ran for president. >> i imagine the management tips from vladimir putin, how to get your war authorization through the duma in 15 minutes. >> he would have been smart enough not to make bernie kerik secretary. it's alrea...

The opportunity to try to reassure a wary public. >> military plan that has been developed by our joint chiefs and that i believe is appropriate is proportional. it is limited. it does not involve boots on the ground. this is not iraq, and this is not afghanistan. >> immediately after that private meeting, house speaker john boehner and democratic leader nancy pelosi were quick to announce their support of war authorization. >> the use of these weapons had to be responded to, and only the united states has the capability and the capacity to stop assad and to warn others around the world that t...