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House and their field commanders on a constant basis. that generally through the secuty council. i think in this case, though, the general thought this weapon was appropriate and there were no reports of casualties. so the operation, i think he deemed was appropriate. he might have informed someone, but i don't think he went out of the way to do it. >> obviously, anything we do in afghanistan is covered by a war authorization. that was passed a long time ago. there is still some question whether anything we do in syria falls under that or not. do you believe it does or doesn't? >> i think with...

It to level with the american people the cost and benefit. it is a matter of letting us know what we're in for if this is what we're doing. i think that's something the president owes all of us who are sitting by and watching him do this but then don't understand what plan b is. sean spicer said a red line is barrel bombing in syria. assad barrel bombs on a daily basis. are we going to bomb syria every time he does that? we need to know what the strategy is as is american people. >> shannon: the president will have to make that case to congress if he goes and asks for a war authorization. if w...

>> he already has that authority. every -- you got some good people on this program. i differ with them in this regard. i thinhak the president has authorization to use force. assad signed the chemical weapons treaty ban. there is an agreement with him not to use chemical weapons. what did we learn that war criminals don't police each other very well. p the putin regime is a bunch of war criminals, and we expected them to police assad, that didn't work out very well. so all these resolutions or limitations on using force, not authorizations used force. i don't intend to vote for anything that ...

As a member of congress was agnst e war in iraq. when we get sucked into a war we do not know the unintended consequences. >> house minority nancy pelosi, meanwhile, demanding that speaker paul ryan actual lawmakers back from what's currently a break to debate some kind of war authorization. i am joined by david corn. karen tumulty and jens david olen. professor, how legal is this operation at this point, and what might be required if it continues? >> i mean, i think it's legal under u.s. law because the president didn't need congressional authorization for such a limited strike. normally the ...

Coalition to get half of congress to give him a kind of broad authority here. that's the kind of authority that obama really never wanted but i think trump probably wants it. >> karen, i was exploring this point earlier about how the middle east is different. both parties were saying it's a mess over there. we're going to use drones, war-making authority wherever we want. putting syria to the side, president obama taking a lot of flak over the red line, but folks will remember he was bombing five-plus middle eastern countries with drones and being very aggressive. here was lindsey graham on ba...