northern africa, central africa.e went to all these different places and found people who would be loyal to him. at the same time, france was divided. very often french forces loyal to de gaulle and the government. you'd have frenchmen fighting frenchmen. it was one of those things where when history began turning in dickel e gualle's way, a lot of the people said, we are not eager to fight for the freedom of their own country. again, i see this comparison with afghanistan. it just one of those things where de gaulle was trying to rally these people to become patriots and do the right things for the country. half of them did not want to do that. in the resistance was, originally, a separate component. it was founded by the french themselves. it began with students and radicals who are trying to quietly fight the nazis within pairs with a little sabotage, making sure that they passed secrets about the nazi troop emplacements back in england and making sure british flyers who were shot down were smuggled back over the

the first to many members of congress or members of the public realized america was at war and northern africa. the justification for the deployment? the 2001 aumf. the 2001 aumf has become a blank check for war.

first time many mentors of congress or members of the public realized america was at a war in northern africa. the justification, the 2001 aumf . 2018ding to the congressional research service report, the 2001 aumf has become a blank check for war. the united states has deployed troops to syria, afghanistan,

first time many mentors of congress or members of the public realized america was at a war in northern africa. aumfustification, the 2001 . according to the congressional the 2001 hasrt, become a blank check for war. the united states is deployed iraq, to afghanistan,

northern africa, central africa. he went to all these different places and found people who would be loyal to him. at the same time, france was divided. but the french forces loyal to de gaulle and the government. you'd have frenchmen fighting frenchmen. it was one of those things where when history began turning in his way, a lot of the people said, we are not eager to fight for the freedom of their own country. again, i see this comparison with afghanistan. it just one of those things where de gaulle was trying to rally these people to become patriots and do the right things for the country. half of them did not want to do that. in the resistance was, originally, a separate component. it was founded by the french themselves. it began with students and radicals who are trying to quietly fight the nazis within pairs with a little sabotage, making sure that they passed secrets about the nazi troop pe, making sure the british flyers were shut down somehow struggled back over the border and then back into portugal and b

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there are 5000 jihadists exporting fighters, equipment, and ideology into northern africa. where did he sent their -- did they send their ideology and weapons first? syria. people have reported weapons. libya has a history of exporting fighters. they exported into syria through turkey. it was flush with weapons. nato flooded libya with weapons. uae, caught her, they flooded -- uae, qatar. all his arms caches, they were liberated. they went from turkey into syria. why? assad needed to fill. -- needed to go. assad is an evil man. "thell the book destruction of libya." at one point in time we talked about just keeping the lid on the garbage can. mubarak,e things that gadhafi. mubarak, gadhafi, and assad, they were and perfect, but they kept the lid on the garbage can. they were fighting radical jihadists. we created an environment for radical jihadism to grow, embracing the muslim brotherhood. it's not just over there. we'll put a book out in the near future. we not only have embraced the muslim brotherhood, the people that want to destroy and undercut western democracy, that

i'm not sure that congress haveioned we would have potential of ground troops in northern africa in combat missions. if i understand from your cinema sweep modify this aumf, it you would feel that you have adequate authorization to commit american ground troops in northern africa. >> senator if the president a threat to the united states and got into the aumf who said they were allied with al qaeda or isis, yes, sir, i believe so. >> senator johnson. exit want to start by thanking but the secretaries for the service to the country. >> i want to start by thanking the secretaries for their service. you talked about a 16-your contract. totally different than anything we witnessed in the past. i remember when we had this discussion a couple years ago with the advent of vices, trying to rewrite a new authorization for use of military force was about limiting ground troops. no ground troops. secretary tillerson, you talked about -- has basically ended. really darn close. >> we have liberated a large amount of area in iraq and syria yet.he fight is not over >> is there anyway we could've done wha

as i understand it, our troops in northern africa have been there much longer than 60 days. can you just explain very briefly what our mission was in niger when the tragedy occurred, and under what legal authority those troops were there? sec. mattis: i can. the troops are there under title 10 in a train and advise role. the letter from the president, from president obama in 2013, to the pro temp of the senate and the speaker of the house talks to the total number of u.s. military deployed there in 2013 was 100 in furtherance of u.s. national security interests. as president obama's report to you. that continues to be the case. at this time. mr. cardin: the specific mission that they were participating in, as i understand it, went beyond that. am i wrong on that? sec. mattis: the mission of those troops on that patrol was a combined patrol, which means they were with niger troops and they were on a patrol where they were teaching them how do you what's called key leader engagement. i'd have to wait until i get the full investigation in to give you a more complete answer. but

african nations talking about building out natural gas and for structure pipelines throughout northern africaown to west africa. they are investing in more fossil fuels, more pipelines. when you ask them aren't you decarbonizing, they sort of laugh. they say this doesn't work, because until you can help us find some thing that is affordable, that is the same cost of natural gas, it's not physically possible to replace tried and true energy sources. they say solar in the mix is ok, but the single point of focus of removing non-removals -- non-renewables is not possible. rep. armstrong: we are trying to lift the country out of poverty, democracy and cheap, reliable energy. part of that is reliable. you have to have it. they are not interested in a 30 year climate emission go, they don't have running water in a lot of races. they don't have these things. to try and ask them to incorporate urban you not states version of some kind of climate ideology -- it is not going to happen and we should not try to do it. we should have american companies and american investors deploying the technology we ha

blair looking at the middle east and northern africa, by my count, we have three failed states, yemen, libya -- all of them arguably in a state of civil war. in every case we see radicalism, isis and al qaeda. it looks to me like the region is in worse shape than it was a decade ago. is this going to get worse before it gets better? ago. what can the structure do to pru pruvent pruvent -- prevent what can the outside world do? mr. blair: thank you for having me back. let's try to take a step bac

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we turn on tv and we see christians being led to a beach in northern africa and being murdered by isis. there are things in this world to be pessimistic about, by suggesting you our best days in this country are ahead of us. our best days in this country us because i believe we are a few policy changes and leadership changes from the best days of america's future. i believe that with all my heart. [applause] i know we can put into place policies that will bring americans from over taxation. thatarts with breaking up -- in washington d.c. and evolving the power to the u.s. states. they know better how to deliver education curriculum to your children that some bureaucrat in washington d.c. that is why i am against common core. [applause] i believe with all of my heart that the people of iowa know how to come up with wao

mali and in northern africa. elements of boko haram are doing it. so, we are getting these almost nihilistic totalitarian organizations that are controlling. a lot of territory getting intos these places that isis is not approve. the red cross says it did manage to provide medical equipment to a hospital in mosul, which isis controls, and c says it has established contacts with some people inside falluja, in riraq, that these are very small efforts. the situation as i see it. in that particular region. we are facing a very difficult situation, under resourced as our two previous speaker said. thank you. a&a. --n do that during q&a. >> oh, and foreign fighters. i'm a grandfather. young men worldwide find ways to get in trouble. i do not care where they are from. tunisia and other places are no exception. it could be through video games or through drugs or through alcohol. ut forcefully, at least in the west and in europe, the outlets for getting a trouble are much less lethal than they are in that particular -- it is not surprising that young men of

i think the senator knows that we have operations throughout northern africa where we are working with other governments on intelligence to counterterrorism and we are doing refueling activities now and it concerns me. i have concerns that if we use this vehicle, we may have 30-40 incidents -- instances where this vehicle might be used to do something that cannot be dealt with by the war powers act. i will say that the strong passage of the issue that we have just dispensed with helps. it helps a great deal. future, if, in the this vehicle is utilized, we now know if set the precedent that only germane issues can be brought up. i have concerns, and we have now solve those, that other issues may be brought up. other members have more votes, but we have now narrowed this in a very appropriate way. the senator and i have discussed a resolution that is separate and apart from this, separate and apart from this. i have agreed with senators on the other side of the aisle that i will not introduce that resolution until this issue has been dispensed with. i do hope we will have a tonimous vote

we see this thing metastasizing now across northern africa and other parts. what is your latest assessment of al qaeda in terms of its control and operation of these smaller efforts that are popping up in different parts of the middle east and north africa? >> in the past i think the core asserted an amount of the influence over the franchises. it depends on our definition of the core and our ability to disrupt communication between them. aqap, other elements, have developed as a result of the local environment. they are unique unto themselves. we need to make sure that we are able to work with the governments and intelligence service is so we can put pressure on them. and number of them have local agendas, and some of them have international agendas. aqap in yemen has a effort underway to bring that government down, and the government has done a great job. there are other elements, narcotics smugglers, human traffickers, they involve kidnappings and ransoms, and are involved in terrorist attacks. we need to take into account what the informant is, who we can

the philippians, south america, china, eastern europe, palestine and recently, the revolt in northern africa call the arab spring. the people struggling therefore liberation and peace. they built on more vocabulary and vision and post our struggle as a model to emulate. our lessons and challenges are to continue the struggle of the '60's it is to expand the concept and practice of freedom and pose a new paradigm of how humans relate to each other. it is to start a new history of humankind. to do that, we must lead. we must reach inside ourselves and think new thoughts. think in a self-determined, dignity affirming, life enhancing way. we are, in this current era, we are confronted with an awesome challenge to continue, unfinished historic and ongoing struggles to constantly expand street realm of human freedom, social justice in the world. although we can rightly be proud of having elected a black president and see it as a historical achievement of our people in our struggle for freedom, justice and equity, the struggle continues. we cannot see it as an end in itself. nor can we be confused

it is not just syria and iraq it is also northern africa -- it is libya, it is all throughout northern africa, going into asia as well. everywhere, we see power vacuums. this is why most counterterrorism officials will tell you that the threat is increasing because of the fact that they have more safe havens. the more they have fat, they also have -- they have that, they also have the ability to conduct operations, not unlike the cores in group. don't think for a minute they are not still trying to do that. we need more of that. we need better special forces with the iraqi national army, and the problem is that the iraqi national army -- they are not the ones we trained, they are demonstrably completely incapable of defending iraq. they dropped weapons and most will, and now -- in mosul and now they have taken over another city with the greatest antiquities in iraq, that they will destroy and sell on the open market. the s-- the data we got from him, i hope, will be helpful to expose networks from a terrorism financing standpoint, inside syria and outside. mr. cook: did you feel better

we see various hard spots around the world, and the middle east, northern africa, and the ukraine, our neighboring country. and in recent months, we sought serious excavations -- escalations because of the threats coming from washington. threats to solve a nuclear issue on the korean peninsula through the use of force. we heard similar threats regarding afghanistan, using force to resolve the problem. of course, statements intended to disrupt joined comprehensive plan on the iranian nuclear program, to further destabilize the situation. unfortunately, our u.s. partners and their allies still want to conduct affairs through dictating ultimatums, they are unwilling to listen to other centers of international politics. they refuse to acknowledge the merging multi-pole of the world. the methods they used to deter their rivals are, for a large part, from the deployment of the global missile defense system, unilateral sanctions, territorial apical put -- applications of its laws, and to resolve international issues based on their own scenario, including the use of brutal military force. as a

but from italy's stap point the development of northern africa has special significance. therefore this is also very meaningful. finally, we talked at length about this verbal monstrosity. this implication platform. what that means. whether it is possible to reach agreement in african countries that refugees should even endeavor to journey across the a a hara that they don't get into totally unacceptable situations in the first place. it then becomes very difficult to work it all with the international organization of migration. we have very intense discussions of this topic. we talked a lot about it. i made clear that this will only work if we don't discuss it with the heads of the african countries but talk with the countries. we need pact with africa. the idea of marshall plan for frica, a very important one. during this last session of the african union is for the first time developed a migration concept based on the african perspective. it's correlating unit for migration will be established in morocco which could function as it's own for the european union. and that

they were trying to get their branch down in northern africa , and you see the activity across northern africa. i won't go into all those activities. but you get the picture that the threat getting worse by the day, not better by the day. the fact that they hold $1 billion in cash and gold bullion, 9/11 took about $200,000 and about a year of planning, that's a lot of dangerous cash in the kitty. these folks aren't worried about building schools and roads and taking care of public services. they're worried about killing and trying to dominate individuals across iraq, syria -- they'd love to take lebanon, now they're on the border of jordan. they're on the border of israel. this is as bad a situation as you can possibly imagine. with that, i think we should all have a drink. >> have a stiff orange juice, in the "monitor" paradecision. -- tradition. let me ask you one or two, and then move to my colleagues. you're a member of the house republican leadership team. what lesson or message do you take from the tramp of thad cochran and the loss of tim --do does it say anything to you about wh

war thes look at the results of middle east and northern africa. ato has led to unprecedented over 30 years level of tensions years s year we mark 20 yearsning of nature -- 15 since the adoption of the declaration about a new quality of nato russian relations. basis for the documents was the obligation of russia and the ensure security based on newt which you will respect of each other's strengthening confidence and preventing threat nothe euro atlantic region, to create demarcation lines. this did not happen mainly due that nato still remained a cold war institution. that wars start in the heads of people, and according o this logic, they should stop there as well. unfortunately, this did not happen with the cold war. we can judge about that in regard to many appearances by europe and the the statements which were heard yesterday and of our t the beginning conference. spreading of nato, i have entioned that already, we vehemently disagree with those who blame russia and the new of world -- in their attempts to thwart the so-called order.eral the c

the iran deal, with the arab spring, what that brought us was a massacre of the middle class of northern africa. i never heard congress declare war on libya. and anything that was part and parcel of that whole arrangement, which the iran deal was, to perpetrate these complexes, i think the guest is right. that is what the cia does. the perpetrate conflicts because they make money on that. guest: i don't remember saying that. host: the viewer. guest: yeah, the viewer said that. i never said that. caller: we have in in wars continuously since world war ii. you go back all that way. good afternoon. the president just finished rolling on new actions and proposals to jot down trump prices for all americans. the current situation is unacceptable and fixing jump prices is a top irony for the president. the bluepri

the safe havens popping up all throughout the region in northern africa. my point with syria is we need to take a hard look before we start throwing our resource in their, our weapons, and no-fly zones which syrian air force has great anti-aircraft capabilities and much greater than libya. our men and women on the ground, my concern is who are these rebel forces must mark when i asked that question, i cannot get a straight answer. 60% extremists. he guarantee if we give them the arms -- can you guarantee it will give them the arms, it will not go to the jihadists? we cannot. they are supposed to be our enemy. we sigh history play out where they turned that back at u i experienced that in afghanistan. with to be careful before we dive into something like this -- we have to be careful before we dive into something like this. i am not saying maybe we should not at some point back moderate forces, congress has a role the process. it is what our bill calls for. congress should be looking at this before we go to another ward this time in syria. but setting aside

secretary pompeo: we repatriated to countries in northern africa, arab countries.we asked every country to take back those that are their own and we have many that -- that we won't be able to return for a host of reasons. and we got to find a solution which we have not yet done. the state department and department of defense are working closely with the iraqis and others to figure out the best way to ensure they don't return to the battlefield. it's a real challenge. mr. rogers: mr. secretary, you have been very generous with your time. we appreciate you being with us. mrs. lowey: mr. secretary, i, too, want to thank you, again, for spending this time with us. i'd like to ask you if you think the state department has gotten its swagger back. do you have adequate resources to fund your important work, both here and overseas? as we contemplate your budget r 2020, if there is specific requests, we'd be happy to assist you in your very important work. so has the state department gotten the swagger back? secretary pompeo: i hope so. i'll leave others to judge. those in

let's look at the results of the middle east and northern africa. nato has led to unprecedented over 30 years level of tensions and this year we mark 20 years of signing of nato acting paris, and 15 years since the adoption of the declaration about a new quality of nato russian relations. the basis for the documents was the obligation of russia and the west to jointly ensure security on mutual respect of each other's interest, strengthening of conscience, and -- strengthening of confidence and preventing threat in the euro atlantic region, not to create demarcation lines. this did not happen mainly due to the fact that nato still remained a cold war institution. many say that wars start in the heads of people, and according to this logic, they should stop there as well. unfortunately, this did not happen with the cold war. we can judge about that in regard to many appearances by politicians in europe and the u.s., including the statements which were heard yesterday and today, at the beginning of our conference. spreading of nato, i have mentioned th

when we started that war, our troops going through northern africa totally ill-equipped, it will train, and the same thing happen in korea and vietnam. we decide we don't need the military until we need the military, and then playing catch-up is really hard. times have changed. world war ii lasted for years. we built the pentagon in one year. i don't know if i have towed to the story yet, but i have told it many times. if we wanted to build the pentagon right now, first of all, we would probably not be able to build at. probably some endangered species would stop us. say we got through the process and we finally turned the first spade of dirt and started building a, we would probably not be -- we would be in the vietnam war before we could get the pentagon bill. we have taught ourselves up with so much bureaucracy. tolet's move from budget policy issues. >> let's talk about iraq and whether you think the troops ought to pull out or not. it does not seem like the iraqis at this moment really want us to stay. >> i hope that there is a request to keep some troops there and provide some se

history and you see how many people we lost at the start of world war ii that were going through northern africa with inadequate equipment, training, leadership, we lost a will the of people that should not have been lost. we weren't prepared. we weren't prepared when the north koreans and the chinese came in to south korea. you think would -- we would learn at some point from history. i gave the same speeches that neville chamberlain was giving when hitler went through europe. we had a meeting with secretary rums felled a couple months ago. he said on the morning of 9/11 he had some of the members of our armed services committee for breakfast, and he said i told them, because we had just gone down the clinton-bush drawdown for discipline, which ever. he told those members at that time something bad is going to happen. i can't tell you when, where, what, my study of history shows me something bad is going to happen. well a couple hours later, they hit the towers. we should know what's happening in iran right now, china, korea, the whole spring over there with egypt and libya and tunisia. those t

because a country like italy , butturkey is important from italy's standpoint, the development of northern africa has less significance. this is also a meaningful contribution. finally, we talked at length about the implications that form. what does that mean? to answer the question whether it is possible to reach an agreement with african countries that refugees even endeavor to journey across the sahara, that they don't get into unacceptable situations in the first place. it then becomes very difficult to work with the unhcr and international organization of migration. we had very intense discussions on this topic. we talked a lot about it. i made clear that this will only work if we discuss with the heads of the african countries but talk with the countries. just as we need a new pact with africa. the idea of the marshall plan with africa is a very important one. maybe you heard during the last session of the african union, it for the first time developed a migration concept based on the african perspective. coordinating unit for migration will be established in morocco, which could function f

of african nations talking about building out natural gas infrastructure pipelines throughout northern africa down to the west africa. they are investing in more fossil fuels, more pipeline, and when you ask them, well, aren't you decarbonizing? they sort of laugh and say, look, this does not work, because until you can help us find something that is affordable, that is the same cost of natural gas, and it is just not physically possible to replace, tried and true energy sources, they say and energy mix is ok, and sure, we will have solar in the sahara and some other places, but the single point of focus of moving all renewables is not reasonable nor rational peer i would presume you would agree. rep. armstrong: well, and also, from a domestic standpoint, when you are trying to lift an entire country out of poverty, two things that have lifted most people out of poverty and most of the world are democracies and cheap, reliable energy. reliable. you have to have it. they are not interested in some 30-year climate omission goal. they don't have running water in a lot of places. they don't have

it is not just syria and iraq but northern africa, libya, it is all throughout northern africa.s going into asia as well. everywhere we see power vacuums and this is why counterterrorism officials will tell you the threat has been seen for quite some time because of the fact that they have more say payments to operate out of. when they have that, they also have opportunities to conduct external operations not unlike the course on group in syria that we know is intent on developing nonmetallic iud explosives to get on airplanes to blow up airplanes in the united states. don't think for a minute they are not still trying to do that. we take out some with an airstrike, that is good. abu's demise was positive development. we need more of that. the problem is that iraqi national army is not the army we had four years ago. not the one we trained, they are a brand-new army and they have demonstrated that they are completely incapable of defending iraq. the drop the weapons in ramadi and now, sadly for us to appreciate art, they have taken over another city with the greatest antiquities

but when we started that war, our troops going through northern africa were totally ill equipped, ill trained, and they were fodder. and the same thing happened then in korea. and the same thing, we chewed troops up in vietnam. and we've done that. we decide we don't need the military until we need the military. and then playing catch-up is hard. times have changed. world war ii lasted four years. we built the pentagon in one year. i don't know if i've told you this story yet, but i've told it many times. >> that wasn't the house you built. is it? >> no. different story. but if we wanted to build a pentagon right now, first of all, you wouldn't probably be able to build it. it's a swamp out there. probably some endangered species. but say we got through the process, all the court indicateses and everything -- cases and everything, and we finally turn the dirt and started building it. we'd probably not be in world war ii. we probably would be done with korea. we'd probably be in the vietnam war before we could get the pentagon built. we tie you ar -- >> i'm going to jump in. we have ab

around the world, northern africa. hasa has been a -- libya been a devastating series of events.ost: are you saying we are in the end better off with it then without it, obamacare? gov. romney: there are pros and cons. have it, butr not it has done a better job making sure pre-existing conditions are covered, but that the price of insurance does i go through the roof. far more emphasis on personal health savings accounts, and the mandated coverages, meeting the specific treatments mandated in these copperheads of plans. i would -- comprehensive plans. i would like to see a lot of those taken out. host: is there anything in this presidency that you would cn unalloyed good thing for america? gov. romney: give me some time. the answer is yes. the president has tried on some fronts. i am at a bit of a loss here. [laughter] i mentioned the recovery, we have gotten out -- host: but you said he had nothing to do with it. [laughter] gov. romney: i said he could have made it worse, he didn't make it worse. education, the, -- theserace relations major issues, there has not been progress. h

those are foreign fighters we worry about transiting from northern africa onto the european continent. halfway point. deb: do you see any isis presence in the united states other than people who have been ? spired by nicholas: by and large that is her biggest concern in the united states. individuals who are motivated by, inspired by tapping into the isis ideology. beyond that we certainly don't see at present the kind of sleeper cell or clandestine cell structure we worried about when we were dealing with al qaeda after 9/11. the organization does not run itself in the same way. that doesn't mean -- i have to be careful in terms of what it means for actual threats. in some ways it is a harder threat for us to counteract in the united states. when you are dealing with the network, you only have to find one entry point to learn what the network is up to. when you are dealing with an individual largely acting on his or her own with only passive connections to a isis's leadership, the challenge for law enforcement, the fbi and local law enforcement is much greater. how do you identify th

deal, withhe iran the arab spring, what that brought us was a massacre of the middle class of northern africa. i never heard congress declare war on libya. and anything that was part and parcel of that whole arrangement, which the iran deal was, to perpetrate these complexes, i think the guest is right. that is what the cia does. the perpetrate conflicts because they make money on that. guest: i don't remember saying that. host: the viewer. guest: yeah, the viewer said that. i never said that. caller: we have in in wars continuously since world war ii. you go back all that way. saw theion is i never cia listed in the constitution or the f ei or these wrote -- the fbi or these rogue agencies that have their own agenda. i think it is time to rein these things back in. like kennedy wanted to do after the bay of pigs. he wanted to disband the cia. ok, got your point. guest: i think our professionals inside the intelligence community are focused on security threats. i think we have gotten away from what the viewer mentioned. we are not doing those things anymore. people learn from the mistakes. pl

over time, as you know -- that the threat has expanded to -- over the last several years -- to northern africa other parts of the world. so, certainly our counterterrorism strategy reflects that assessment, which, again, is not new, but certainly contributed to his decision on afghanistan. go ahead. >> jen, a headline from the new york post from, i believe, two days ago: team biden's war on desantis is all about kneecapping a successful governor -- a gop governor. could you address that concern, please? ms. psaki: our war is not on desantis. it's on the virus, which we're trying to kneecap. and he does not seem to want to participate in that effort to kneecap the virus, hence our concern. go ahead. >> thank you, jen. i have a rapid fire, three questions on transparency. as ed noted earlier, the president's been to delaware 17 times -- it's soon going to be 18 and 19 times -- over the past six months. i want to know how visits from visitors and from family members with potential conflicts of interest are being treated for the purposes of white house visitor log disclosure. also, i was hoping th

other places in northern africa. how quickly do we think the middle east is going to be able to rebuild itself and be back at any point of stability, coherence, or stable government and we are now looking at a decades-long issue in front of us. take a look at the cities that have been destroyed and parts of iraq, aleppo and other parts of syria, the bombing that's now going on in libya. and think if they can't rebuild europe in 11 year, how quickly do you think they're going to be able to erebuild the physical structure in the middle east and how long do you think it's going to be able to -- it's going to be before you can actually bring the people of those regions back together? they lived together for, you know, hundreds of years but with a genocide going on against christians and other religious minorities throughout the middle east, how long is it going to be before you're able to put the fabric of that society back together? it's going to be a long time this problem is going to be with us for a long time. my par

what was really and that afghanistan and the taliban and use that to go after isis and syria in northern africa. that is clearly not congressional intent. but to use military force against iran, there is no authorization for the use of military force. clearly under the constitution, congress has the power to declare war. the president must come to congress unless there is an urgent issue about defending america or some two powers. in this case, they are planning the military operations. the proper course is to come to congress. i would hope the president would respect the constitution. this is a pretty fundamental seek and i hope he would congressional approval which i'm not sure he would receive. this week, all senators will get an intelligent. what will you need to hear on this issue? >> i expect that we're going to hear about things that iran is preparinghow they are we know that they were extremely upset, the united date pulling out of the nuclear agreement is going to cost them economic relief they thought they were going to receive by joining the agreement. we also know that they were ext