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33 careeryears. i have an authorization to use military force that i will introduce the week after thanksgiving that says we can go anyplace on the planet, no limits on time or geography or means to destroy isil. they represent the same threat to our homeland that al qaeda did after 9/11. i want to be at war it with them. they are at war with us. i want to monitor a sound way activities that would be picked up to prevent the next attack. i'm not trying to listen in on people's phone calls. i'm trying to gather intelligence to prevent an attack on our nation and we have a constitutional process...

Of terrorism. it means more penalties against north korea if it were to happen. one of the other options could be, for example, some sort of retaliatory cyberattack. experts say that probably not as likely only because it opens a kind of pandora's box. making it seem okay to have this retaliatory attack if somebody does perform a cyberattack on your own country. you heard him say it was not an act of war it. the president's critics say that does not go far enough. calling this a new form of war. certainly new developments on that too. >> halle jackson for us in los angeles this monday. thank y...

It subpoena pressed its allies that by the 1980s in eastern europe, a group had become deeply hostile to it. it pursued an arms race with the united states that consumed 20% of its gdp. it invaded afghanistan and bled itself dry in a war it could not admit it had lost. all these flaws were the product of a closed system with no checks and balances. the kremlin and the kgb had complete freedom of maneuver, no oversight, no requirement ever to reveal any operations and no media that reported on them. the result was that errors persisted and ultimately broke the back of the entire enterprise. now...

Compared to the soviet union, it was said, because it had to operate with its hands tied behind its back with congressional interference, media exposure and all of the trappings of a democracy. moscow, on the other hand, could act speedily, effectively, lethally and in secret. in fact, the soviet union pursued an utterly disastrous foreign policy. it so brutally suppressed its allies that by the 1980s it had become so deeply encircled in eastern europe, a group had become deeply hostile to it. it pursued an arms race with the united states that, by some estimates, consumed 20% of its gdp. it i...

The arab league, we don't have great britain, we don't have the european union. give me a break. we're not the only -- >> if turkey or even if there was another vote in parliament with great britain, if there were resounding yeses to be involved militarily alongside the u.s., then that might change your mind? >> i think not because -- you know, we're going through sequestration. if you want a war it should be against those people who are not even thinking about the pain of sequestration. we've got millions of people that are living in poverty, old folks that won't be able to get their meals on...