joining us is jerry nadler. have you lost confidence in the president?ou voted against what he asked you to vote for. >> i disagreed on two basic grounds. number one, i think that we don't know who we are arming over there and we don't -- >> moderate syrian rebels. >> moderate syrian rebels. someone on tv said that's the muslim brotherhood. we have no guarantee they won't turn those arms against us. that's the other problem. >> he wants to arm those moderate syrian rebels. >> well, if you can find proper moderate syrian rebels, i am somewhat dubious and we've seen arms turned against us in the past. >> over the last couple of years they have vetted a bunch of these guys and they think they are on the right path. >> and they may be right or wrong with some of them. but my bigger argument was if we are waging offensive war and our air strikes against isis is offensive war, the president has no authority to do that legally unless he gets authorization from congress. >> he got two votes in the senate and house in the past few days to arm the syrian rebels. >

i would like to recognize for as much time as he may consume, jerry nadler from the great state of new york. mr. nadler: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. mr. speaker, 13 years ago, osama bin laden orchestrated the deadliest terrorist attack in american history, killing almost 3,000 people immediately and wounding thousands more. the attacks also created an environmental nightmare. hundreds of tons of contaminant poured onto the streets of manhattan and brooklyn and other areas covering first responders in toxic dust. the environmental protection administration of the united states government, contrary to a.m. will evidence, insisted that the air in lower manhattan and brooklyn was safe to breathe. thousands of responders remained on the site for search and cleanup efforts and thousands of survivors returned to their homes. the e.p.a. was not telling the truth. get angry at the government for the first few days, maybe even a week or two, encouraging people to help with the rescue operation when we thought it might be a rescue operation. but after that two weeks, when people were wor