ben wittes taking your questions and comments ahead of that hearing. what are your thoughts on the president's request to have congress grant him the authority to fight isis. thomas in lorj las vegas and a republican. go ahead. >> yeah, with the way iran is acting i wouldn't use any forces against isis. especially if you are thinking about allowing iran to have nuclear weapons. iran is isis' enemy and let them take care of each other. >> okay. carmen in illinois, an independent. >> i would like to ask the gentleman, the 2001 war powers authorization set to go after people that committed the 2001 attacks against the u.s., how come the united states didn't go after saudi arabia? >> you know, the u.s.-saudi relationship is extremely complicated and there are a lot of factors in there other than one sense of whether the saudi regime are a bunch of nice people whether you think that is a good thing or a bad thing we have all kinds of strategic energy relations with the saudis and and i don't think the possibility of military action against saudi arabia was

host: ok, ben wittes?st: you are certainly correct that there are a great number of international armed conflicts that are not sanctioned by the un security council. it is not correct that no u.s. operations have been sanctioned by the security council or in some have, some have not. generally, depending on how the united states has been to get the votes it needs, to show permanent members -- to persuade and permanent members not to veto things -- it is also the case that the question of whether you can militarily intervene on behalf of a country of its own territory consented -- this is a military operation done in collaboration with a sovereign iraqi government -- is not exactly the situation the u.n. charter is -- this is a set of operations done -- you are correct that the u.n. charter has not in fact governed a lot of states actions all the time, including the united states' actions sometimes in the military, and the military's fear, though most countries including the united states spend a lot of tim

wittes. >> he wanted to deal with the clause issue and the ballistic missiles. those are not inor inordinately unwise positions. >> rose: tom friedman, ben rhodes, ray takeyh and tamara coffman wittes when we continue. thrs funding is provided by the following. >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's speech to congress today, the runner-up to the visit was highly controversial. speaker of the house jon boehner extended the invitation without consulting the whowssments many perceived the political address as an insult to the white house. >> this h deal has two major concessions. one, leaving iran with a vast nuclear program and, two, lifting the restrictions on that program in about a decade. >> rose: president obama defended the nuclear negotiations following the speech. >> the alternative to the prime minister offers is no deal in which case iran will immediately begin once again pursuing its nuclear program accelerate its nu

ben rhodes, thank you very much. ♪ >> we continue looking at u.s. israel h relations with tamara cofman wittes. also, ray takeyh.nk you for being here. >> the speech was very effective as a speech. particularly at the end when netanyahu was saying to his domestic audience and cortical base. -- political base. he said, if we need to, we will stand alone but we are not alone. america stands with us. that is the video clip his party will use. >> i thought it was unusually modest speech. the prime minister is accused of being maximalist. his demands were at a modest level. he wanted to deal with the sunset clause and ballistic missiles. those are not -- >> are these conditions iran will accept? >> what he highlighted were not criticisms limited to the being in yahoo! -- benjamin netanyahu. these are the criticisms of numerous democratic legislators. that is the consensus position in many ways. >> i think those involved in the negotiations would agree, in principle, if they could get those things, that would be great. they just don't think that is realistic. what was striking to me and policy terms about the speech t

ben... ...she's coming around. purina cat chow gentle. one hundred percent complete and balanced for everyday feeding of adult cats. >>> welcome back to "weekends with alex wittd the identity of the plane's captain as patrick sonderhimmer. new questions being raised about the menlt health of co-pilot andreas lubitz who has believed to have deliberately crashed the plane. search-and-recovery teams continue to scour the french alps for the unrecovered flight data recorder. >>> the crash of flight 9525 is raising new questions about mental fitness for pilots. with a thank you for being here with us we've been talking a lot about pilot stress. what are the specific dangers to mental and emotional health for pilots? >> there are -- specific dangers would include the sleep deprivation issues and the intense responsibility that's included. but i don't think that's as much of a concern and as all of this can create in the public in terms of fear and so forth. i think that this is an extremely rare, isolated incident. most people with a mental health issue are not at all dangerous. and this is a very rare occurrence. and in terms of pilots, this is a very unusual even