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The authority to take the initial strike. war doesn't get easier. it will get a lot harder. he will have a lot of questions to answer. most of all, we have to explain the goal for the american troops that we're asking to risk their lives. i remember in 2003 when general petraeus says tell me how this ends. we don't know what we're really fighting for in syria. fundamentally that is not fair to our troops. >> senator tim kaine said what the president did was unlawful by not going to congress. do you agree? >> i don't know about the details. my understanding is he has 48 hours to notify us if he...

Playing out right now on social media. all of the political types say when something big happens, the fact that president trump has played fast and loose with the facts will come back to haunt him. people won't necessarily trust what he's doing or believe what he's saying. here we are. it turns out the democrats we've had on thus far do trust what he's saying. but his supports, this is fake news, this isn't happening. >> yeah. >> i mean, that is mind blowing. it did end up having a repercussion, but not the one we thought it was. >> i think that is the result, alison, of the fact that a lot of...

Witnesses who are reporting from eastern aleppo. the people there, there is no sign it would be reimposed for the buss to be in place tomorrow. >> it doesn't seem anything will prevent that from happening. what's the next step, the larger picture as far as the opposition is concerned and the civilians were trapped. >> you're right. aleppo has all but fallen. all the rebel districts in three weeks fell like dominoes. the fall of aleppo doesn't mean the fall of the rebels. and the end of aleppo's war doesn't mean the end of the war. maybe four or five different wars. we saw a few days ago when i...

Our tactics here. it's not going to be exactly like 2003. here's exactly what we're going to do. these are the resources we're committing to it. >> to what end, dana? >> to whatever end necessary. war doesn't happen in a vacuum. dear god. >> the president said we're going to be great and destroy isis. we're 14 months into this and we're not doing that. >> you just said we need a political solution. something that will last. and we don't have, we don't have hard -- why do you invite the iranians to the table? well iran has been a principal sponsor of the -- >> is that a strategy? >> let's get e...

Countries over to the people who ultimately have to have responsibility for them. >> ben, it sounds like you're saying isis would never be where they are today and have such a stronghold if we had stayed? >> absolutely. that's what the last three secretaries defense have said and what many of the commanders have said about the criticism of this administration. just because you want to end a war doesn't mean you just do it just because it's on your list of things to do. >> but do you really think a president would do that? >> a and this's certainly not what president obama did, ben, come on. >>...