host: stick around for our next guest, dana rohrabacher. on a recent trip to northern iraq, he met with members of the kurdish government as a proponent to sending records to the kurdish government. we will talk to him specifically about the issues you just product. we will go to michael, tucson, arizona, on the line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning. can you hear me? host: i can hear you, michael. go ahead. caller: they've got it all wrong. this type of warfare has never participated in any time in human history. we are not fighting a nationstate here. as a former marine, i know. we are not fighting countries. we are fighting a war against terrorists. this is a global war. this war that this president has engaged in is unprecedented in human history. you can name: no country that -- you can name no country that has ever entered into military action like this. the job of a terrorist is to bring horror to you, to terrorize you. there has never been a war like this in our human history. host: michael, you say you are a marine.

you are up next with dana rohrabacher. >> caller: thank you congressman. my biggest concern is if we are sending troops in there that we haven't even taken care of the troops when it the first time. we have been waiting for va claim in the president is in charge of the va and i talked to jeff miller and the veterans affairs committee and with bipartisan support has done a lot to push these issues. i have concerns that they are not taking care of us now and they're not building hospitals and they haven't built hospitals in 25 years. we are not getting our benefits and i would like to hear your comments on that. >> guest: i think you are rightfully worried. i will just have to say in this administration we know there was a cover-up of the condition of the actual incompetence that was going on and a lack of efficiency that was going on in our va hospitals. this administration oversaw a covering up of that inadequacy of their doing their job at the va. i think veterans we do need to take care for veterans and we need to make sure will look we have to make sure

host: how you are on with congressman dana rohrabacher.uest:caller: my biggest concern is that if we central out there that they weren't taking care of the troops a first time. i am a disabled vet and have been waiting a long time for my v.a. claim. the president is in charge of the v.a. and i have to admit i talked to jeff miller and bipartisan support and i have concerns they are not taking care of us >> key should not be doing policy days on what's going to prevent people from attacking us in a islamic world. we should do what makes sense for us, to make sure those people in the islamic world who are muslims and willing to work. i believe 90% of the muslim people certainly don't go along with these radicals. but the radical islamic terrorists are motivated by their religion. and they are trying to radicalize their fellow muslims and the worst thing we can do is make this a muslim versus christian battle because right now we have many muslims who will -- the northern alliance that defeated the taliban, for example, in afghanistan. they a

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dana rohrabacher of california. >> well, thank you very much, secretary jacobson. this is a difficult task for you to be here. i am only -- i think one of the main concerns we have here instead of changing the castro regime into a more democratic regime, the president is acting as if he has the right to rule by dictate and over his presidency is changing our country to be more like castro than having castro change to be more like a free and open society. these ruling by dictate and having secret negotiations is not what america's all about. that's not how we make policy here. many of us are very disappointed. this isn't the first case of this, however. dealing with a regime that is oderous -- is that the word i want? onerous and oderous, i think it's both. there you go. but we have a regime that stinks one way or the other and it's oppressive one way or the other that we're dealing with, but yet we have had secret negotiations and deals that are announced to us, and you were here to explain it. so let me ask this -- when you said there are no concessions, we go int

. >>> on the next washington journal, we talk to congressman dana rohrabacher. he will discuss the president's ask for authorization for the use of military force against isis. then representative jerry m mcnerney of california is here to talk about combatting isis. later our bus tour of historically black colleges and universities will continue. washington journal is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join the conversation with your phone calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> here are some of our futured programs for this president's day weekend. live coverage of the savannah book festival with non-fiction authors and books. former senior addvisor for president obama and on american history tv saturday morning, the 100th anniversary of the release of the film, the birth of a nation. the showing of the entire 1915 film. sunday at 8:00 on the presidency, george washington portraits focusing artists captured the spirit. find our complete television schedule and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. >>> keep track of

host: how you are on with congressman dana rohrabacher.uest:caller: my biggest concern is that if we central out there that they weren't taking care of the troops a first time. i am a disabled vet and have been waiting a long time for my v.a. claim. the president is in charge of the v.a. and i have to admit i talked to jeff miller and bipartisan support and i have concerns they are not taking care of us now. they haven't built hospitals and 45 years. we are not getting our benefits. i would like to hear your comments on that. thank you very much. guest: you are rightfully worried. i just have to say with this administration, we know there was a cover up of the condition of the actual of the lack of efficiency going on. this administration oversaw a covering up of that and adequacy of them doing their job at the v.a. i think veterans -- i do think we need to take care of our veterans. we need to make sure we understand and we republicans understand that it was george w. bush and his father who sent all of these americans over there. i think

. >> on the next "washington journal," we spoke to congressman dana rohrabacher of california. he will discuss the president's request for use of military force against isis. then representative jerry mcnerney of california is here to talk about combating isis the keystone pipeline, net neutrality and cyber security issues. later our tour of historically black colleges continues in atlanta. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. next, iranian president hassan rouhani addresses his country on the anniversary of the islamic revolution. this is courtesy of the state run press tv. >> the anniversary of the glorious islamic resolution, of iran, i would like to offer congratulations to the great nation of iran. we are happy that this year it is been held even more gloriously across the nation and the people that have participated in the great rally of february 11. so i would like to thank all the iranian people for the glorious dissipation. -- participation and my appreciation for that. 36 years past since our people raised their demand for independence free

and later we talked to congressman dana rohrabacher about u.s. foreign policy. head of the national counterterrorism center testified before the senate intelligence committee about local threats and ongoing counterterrorism efforts. the intelligence committee is chaired by north carolina senator richard burr. this is an our and a half.

coming up this hour, congressman dana rohrabacher who chairs the foreign affairs subcommittee on emerging threats joins us. he will discuss the president's request for authorization to use military force against isis. then, a congressman will talk about combating isis, the keystone xl will pipeline, and cyber security. later, our bus to her of this wrigley back -- historically black colleges continues. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. and >> when i announced our strategy into december, i said that we are stronger when we work together. today, i submitted a draft resolution to congress to authorize use of force against isis. host: that was president obama at the white house yesterday afternoon after sending a request to congress to fight isis in iraq in syria. that sets the stage for renewed debate

and later we talked to congressman dana rohrabacher about u.s. foreign policy. the head of the national counterterrorism center testified before the senate intelligence committee about local threats and ongoing counterterrorism efforts. the intelligence committee is chaired by north carolina senator richard burr. this is an our and a half. [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. we are going to get the hearing started. i want to welcome director nick rasmussen from the national counterterrorism center. nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. i think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the american people with an update on the current threat from terrorism. the committee remains concerned about the expanding evolving nature of this threat than the challenges facing the intelligence community and the evolving nature of the threat. this is the first of what i hope wi