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How would fdr possibly have pursued our enemies? imagine if he had a congress that denied him a war resolution. that's where we are now. as long as we remain there, as long as we have a president who is so small, who refuses to give an inch on the very fundamental question of whether there's an adversary that is interfering with our democracy, we have a big problem. >> i want to follow up on that analogy. it's provocative. the other side of the analogy is that it sounds like you are calling for war. what it sounds like you are saying if it's equivalent in some ways, right? the concern a lot of...

Imagine if he had a congress that denied him a war resolution. that's where we are now. as long as we remain there, as long as we have a president who is so small, who refuses to give an inch on the very fundamental question of whether there's an adversary that is interfering with our democracy, we have a big problem. >> i want to follow up on that analogy. it's provocative. the other side of the analogy is that it sounds like you are calling for war. what it sounds like you are saying if it's equivalent in some ways, right? the concern a lot of people have about the state of the world right n...

>> that's a question for paul ryan. there is bipartisan support resolution since 2001. this is the resolution that allowed them to go into afghanistan. so the critics of that rightly say it is out dated. we have a new geography. we are in syria. we have a new enemy. isis. there is a growing bipartisan push for paul ryan to bring something to the floor and president trump to deliver something to congress. obama had done so a couple years ago. republicans did not want to take it up. democrats opposed it. this is one of those things which is very, very difficult vote after 15 years of war. the am...

It's been 16 months now, service members killed and also more than anything this is ma that's sized. isis is not just in syria and iraq, they're elsewhere. i think that there's a growing realization that we need to have this debate and we have to have a war resolution and so i do, i am concerned about that. certainly, we don't want a debate and our leadership is concerned we have a debate and don't get anywhere. that would be a good thing. i think there's an increasing realization that even if we don't need new legal authority that it would be a message that needs to be sent to our add vo says...

Islam at a university, it's nearly impossible, because we like to pretend it's not there. >> the target is very clear, it is isis. it is al qaeda. and the reality here is that the republicans running for president would be advocating a war resolution against isis. the republican senate has not even confirmed the undersecretary to oversee counterterrorism activities and to oversee financial crimes, which deals with freezing money for terrorists? that's where the real battle is. >> do you know that the intel analysts are saying that the intel they're generating are having their reports diminishe...