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Partner in things like fighting isis? >> my hope is this will cause congress to take its role more seriously. congress spent decades relinquishing the war power that belongs to congress, and congress if it feels the need to be there, needs to authorize use of military force with regard to the kurds or anywhere else where force might be necessary and the legislative muscle starts to atrophy, one of the many reasons i am pleased. shannon: there are reports, but he'll talking about democrats masking the identity of the whistleblower including conversations or testimony with lawmakers talking abou...

Isis? >> look, my hope, shannon, is that this will cause congress to take its role much more seriously. congress has spent decades were like wishing the war power which belongs to congress and not to the presidency and congress, if it feels strongly about our need to be there, needs to declare war, these to authorize the use of military force either with regard to the kurds or anywhere else workforce might be necessary. we haven't been doing that and when you do that, the legislative muscle starts to atrophy. it's one of many reasons with why i'm pleased with what the president has done. >> sh...

Other g7 leaders are more willing and maybe at this g7 summit more willing to come into agreement or talks with iran and this kind of underscores a g6 plus 1, you know, kind of concept, that it would be the u.s. would be the only one left out. >> no, i think that nearttheory already been disproved. we had two years when the europeans have been able to do absolutely nothing to save the nuclear deal. they've been under pressure from the united states not to do business with iran and they have basically complied. the main function of the others is basically now to play the role of the intermediar...

Blueprint? >> i would say that you know, that we always say it is that obama created a big, strong immigration enforcement machine that was taken by trump and that was made even bigger. right? so to me or to us in the immigrant communities really trying to figure out what are they going to do different? how are they going to stop detention of immigrants, how are they going to stop the treatment of children in this way at the border and how are we going to solve the problem? people are fleeing for a reason. what are they doing to solve the problem and not re-creating another you know, like i sa...

Bush invoked the same bill for actions in over 11 different countries, his successors added nine more. the overreach began with bush but the pentagon and presidents in both parties tend to hold on to major powers. not just major powers, not just give them up. president obama even said he was receptive to limiting this mandate, but that, of course, didn't happen. >> we may be drawn into more wars we don't need to fight. i look forward to engaging congress and the american people in efforts to refine and ultimately repeal the mandate. >> now many democrats say that repeal is overdue, especially ...