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>> laura: good evening, i'm laura ingraham on "the ingraham angle." joe manchin announced he would not seek reelection in west virginia. joe manchin saw the writing on the wall, he was going to lose and lose big. >> i made one of the toughest decisions of my life, i will not run for reelection in the united states senate. i will be traveling the country and speaking out to see if there is interest in creating movement to mobilize the middle and bring americans together. >> laura: the truth is, over time, voters saw through joe manchin's mask. he couldn't play good old boy in virginia...

Thinks they've got too much else to do and they'd rather just delegate the whole war making policy to the president entirely. it's funny, yeah, the constitution gives congress the power to make war and make rules regulating the army and navy and so forth, but to the extent we might get an expanded authorization to use military force, which has a kind of forever war quality to it, that does look a lot like congress saying we can't be bothered, you go figure it out, mr. president. >> does it mean in practical terms we're kind of -- this sounds dramatic, though, we're kind of declaring a permanen...

Now that we're 12 years out of 9/11 isn't it a farce that every act of war is still about 9/11? hawks in congress now are proposing we take 9/11 out of it. make that presidential authorization to use force anywhere in the world without asking anyone, hawks in congress are just proepdsing making that permanent, the new definition of what an american president is and can do. what could possibly go wrong? joining us now for the interview tonight is rosa brooks, a national security law professor at georgetown, university, columnist for "policy" magazine, spent four years with michele flournoy. nex...

Sharron angle in nevada, those can still be seen in another galaxy today, but the her taita foundation is in the news today because it is trying to kill the prospect of immigration reform. they are trying to kill it. the heritage foundation is not supposed to be a campaigning foundation, they are supposed to deal with policy, facts, figures, and complex data sets thachlt can't just appear to be killing immigration with straight-up politics, but use something that looks like research, something that looks like a study of some kind. this is the heritage foundation's brand spanking new study on i...