mr. anders. earlier this year, you probably are aware, members of congress received a letter from th department of defense relying on a 1975 argument suggesting that the only time congress has a role in authorizing u.s. forces to be deployed is when deployed units of u.s. forces are on the ground engaged in a kinetic exan. do you agree with that? and if not why. >> no, we don't agree with that first of all, it's parole of congress to provide, exclusive authority to provide authorization in advance before a military engagementn the absence of a need to repel a an that's the constitutional standard. >> it's not often wars today anyway. waare that we engage in tod that doesn't necessarily involve an kinetic exchange between people on the ground. >> that'sht and i think this, again, is something that began during the obama administration, this definition of what hostilities mean under the war powers legislation. and what the position tha t president am eventually took was hostilities did not incde ai

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ander fbi director comey former deputy director mckay did -- mccabe. hismccabe's lawyer wrote client would rely on his fifth amendment right on self-incrimination to avoid answering any questions here today. mr. comey's attorney tells us he is out of the country. although i saw he was in iowa over the weekend. feed,ing to his twitter he seems to be having a wonderful time. , since the second time he was fired, that mr. comey refused and invert take -- refused an invitation to testify here voluntarily. he has provoked television interviews, but apparently no time to assist this committee, which has primary jurisdiction over the justice department. miss lynch also chose not to show up. the need for transparency does not end when senior officials are fired or quit. we changed our rules at the beginning of this congress to ensure the chairman and ranking member could compel hearing importantfrom witnesses like these. unfortunately the ranking member refused to agree to compel any of them to be here today. that's a shame, because we should be asking them how all of this happened on their watch. were some shocking things in the inspector general's report. thanks to his work, we already knew about