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Analysis. there are scores of paternities throughout the cia, the fbi -- >> give me one learning factor. >> if you make a commitment that would be viewed as a classic commitment of war, then the classic agreement expires. you know my views. i think it was senator kaine who said that coming from the place that you do on the congressional side, i have deep respect for what it is you all are looking for. >> so normally an imminent factor would be a threat or attack on the united states? >> there is a definite definiti definition. >> the war power refers to an attack on the united states. there's ...

Going to war and committing american troops. one was the constitution. congress is supposed to declare war, no the president. two, until 0, 40 years, we had the tkrft. that was a political constraint for the draft. we now do wars on the credit card. the draft is gone. and the constitutional provision is -- has not been observed in 60, 70 years. so all of those things created a very disturbing situation where the president essentially has the sole war power. that is wrong as a matter of policy, wrong as a matter of the constitution. is and if we don't do something about it, we're going to sever...

Foreign policy at large really is and how to balance national security concerns and trade and you have these domestic purely political fights picking with his own party in congress which sort of destabilized like the teams. you've got -- the republicans control the house and senate and white house no problem. but that is complicated things also. i think you do have, however, with mattis and also to a similar extent tillerson and mcmaster, three pillars of the national security military diplomatic community that have a lot of good faith in congress. if there was a case to be built with congress...

Syria? joining me now, fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. there is already a big backlash against this, and when given the chance to, you know, restate it, secretary panetta continued to use that term, permission, international permission. and the congress is very upset saying if you need permission from anybody, you need it from congress, not an international body. >> yeah, mr. panetta's statement -- and you pointed out, he said it twice -- it's somewhere between a gross distortion and obscene per vision of the -- perversion of the law and the constitution. that's not the law, that's no...

we'll hit all of the hotspots, syria, iran, china, egypt, and more. later in the show, the u.s. rolled out the red carpet for china's next president but what is going on behind the scenes between the two rival nations? we have a great panel of china watchers. also, believe it or not, the eurozone crisis is solved. how, what? stay tuned, we'll explain. first, here is my take. we're hearing a new concept these days in discussions about iran. the zone of immunity. the idea often explained by ehud barak, israel's defense minister, is soon iran will have enough nuclear capacity that israe...