but that is not what the constitution is. >> and and senator angus king speaking thursday, the senatehearing on the war powers under the authorization for use of military force. journalist jeremy scahill discussed the same topic on democracy now! last month. he is the author of the new bestseller, "dirty wars: the war is a battlefield." the concept the world is a battlefield is not something i thought up. it is a military doctrine called operational preparation of the battle face. it's as if there are countries where you predict conflicts are likely, or that war is a possibility, you can forward deploy troops to those countries to prepare the battlefield. under both bush and obama, the world has been declared the battlefield the authorization for the use of military force passed a 9/11 is technically the law that president obama and his administration point to when they say they have a right to drone strike in yemen because these people are connected to the 9/11 attack. in reality, one of the enduring legacies of the obama and ministration, he has this dick cheney-esque the that says

angus king joins me now.or king does a caucus with the democrats but is an independent from maine. senator king, i was sitting there listening to both prime minister cameron and to the president. it was clear prime minister cameron is much more i guess hawkish, if you will, wanting to go in sooner. when he talked about syria. he led with two important numbers, 80,000 killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. talking about the refugee situation. prime minister cameron seems to be leaning forward, if you will more than the president. is that appropriate? should the president be leaning as far forward as prime minister cameron is? >> i don't think so. i think the president is taking the right, prudent position. i know in the last segment you talked about the extraordinary interview on "face the nation" with robert gates. he also had a lengthy discussion on syria. i can tell you on being the armed services and intelligence, there were no good options in syria. it is a very complex situation. it makes iraq look

senator angus king of maine is cosponsoring the bill with florida's marco rubio. >> it's so the executive isn't judge, jury and prosecutor and executioner all in one. and it's just a check and balance on this very important process. >> reporter: a demonstrator interrupted president obama as he renewed his vow to clos guantanomo bay. [overlapping speakers] >> reporter: the president said detainees who are not put on trial in the u.s. will be transferred to their home countries. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> one more note from washington. lois lerner the director of the irs division that oversaw agents targeting tea party groups is out. the move comes one day after she refused to answer questions at a congressional hearing about that controversy. >>> other bay area headlines. san francisco police say a bicyclist collided with a garbage truck this morning and the biker died. a recology truck and the 21- year-old man were traveling the same direction on 16th street in the mission district. but when the truck made a turn, the bike crashed into its rear. witnesses tell us t

seeing movement within the progressive caucus in the house and even a lot of senators including angus king who spoke up last week to reform the narrow in scope or repeal it altogether and if congress moves on the i.m.f. then that will have really significant impacts on stuff like one time obey on indefinite detention on the drone talker that sam ok so this bill are we going to see any big changes coming out in terms of drones and get no anything significant well you're mad still remains to be seen i think on drones you might see something happening one of the chairs of the armed services subcommittee that's in in charge of writing the new india this guy named congressman mack dorn very he's a republican he's introduced legislation to force the white house to disclose all of its targeted killing missions to congress with justification and he's gotten some democrats on board so if you can cobble together some sort of coalition in the house to put legislation like that into the n.d.a. that will have really profound impacts on the white house is targeted to as well i think that we need to be c

senator angus king of maine is cosponsoring the bill with florida's marco rubio. >> it's so the executive isn't judged and the prosecutor and executioner all in one. it's just a check and balance on this very important process. >> reporter: a demonstrator interrupted president obama as he renewed his pledge to close the military detention center in guantanamo bay. >> close guantanamo today! >> why don't you sit down and i will tell you exactly what i'm going to do. >> reporter: the president said detainees who were not put on trial in the u.s. will be transferred to their home countries. at the white house, danielle nottingham, wjz eyewitness news. >> the president said the detainees who are put on trial will be brought back to their home country. >>> time now for a quick look at the stories you'll find in tomorrow morning's edition of the baltimore sun. a list of inexpensive and fun events in the area this summer. a preview of the men's and women's lacrosse finals. orioles' pitcher gausman makes his major league debut. for all these stories and more, read tomorrow's baltimore sun. look f

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angus king. there is a very positive and a little bit of negative that comes out of that. he's a good guy. it was good to see an independent elected as an independent, running as an independent. the problem was that angus said absolutely that he had to caucus with the democrats because the party's control the system. if he doesn't caucus with a party he can't get a committee assignment and he can't get, you know. so we have to break that where it is not party leaders to decide whether or not you can get a committee assignment. surf -- >> that is the key. analysts said we won't have a viable third party in this country if it is from the top down. we have seen it pass for people run for president as an independent. it has to be organic from the bottom up with the citizens decide i want you, sir, the independent voter, or you, ma'am, the independent activists to be our representative. that begins to form an organization that begins to crack at the gop in the democratic system which is deliberately designed to keep everyone else out. whether it is on redistricting, whether it

caller: i really like angus king. thought his speech in the senate the other day was one of the best i have ever heard. i'm perplexed by how much of an american patriot he has been. he attacked both sides. lies on either side. i have been recently reading a novel called "atlas shrugged." that is a controversial novel. it points out good points. it is extremely right in many instances, but it also puts the balance of perspective between those of the very top, the wealthy, and control, and it also puts the blame at the bottom for those taking from the system. are in conflict with where we need to be in this country. host: adam from north carolina. let's go to our republican line. shane is waiting from virginia this morning. the queue for calling in late. -- calling in. caller: chris christie. he is really straightforward. i do believe hillary clinton will be the one. when she is in there, i think he will be able to talk about and ozzie and be more straightforward about that in the debate. i think that would give him the

angus king brought up the fact is a nullity to the constitution.o the war could be said from boston to yemen. the work would be set anywhere -- the war can be set anywhere. what is this a about what the drones and it'll americans gecko it is troubling. west pointr. cole at teaching our young soldiers that -- people who believe that the government is radical aren't dangerous groups. that is how you tie in the tea party in the irs and the conservative groups. asking people what their views are -- that is above interested. anybody listening to c-span right now, you have to be troubled by these drones. i mean, you have a law passed that we will have 6000 drones in the sky by 2020. that is a lot of drones. -- you seem to know a lot about this topic. why is that? caller: about the 10,000 rows in the sky by 2020 -- host: just in general. caller: pretty much, and me doing my studying, i come to when you have a court, a federal judge saying that mr. obama on a legal leve l does not have to let american citizens know what is the reason or the legality of the