it is a great pleasure to be here with lou again and with mr. goss, and mr. broder. it is a pleasure to meet you today. i will give you a chance to leave one wonderland which is the people of republic of berkeley and visit another one which is to come to washington, d.c., and defense the obama administration, which is not a position i'm usually used to being in. i'm happy to do it on this one occasion, although not for reasons that the obama agonists -- obama administration wanted. this friday the 60-day limit will pull on the obama administration, and that is the war powers resolution which says a president cannot have troops abroad in periods or informants of potential hostility for more than 60 days. unless he gets authorization from congress, they have to remove them. that means the libyan intervention is this friday. i think this puts president obama in a very tough position of his own creation. when he was campaigning for the presidency at the end of 2007, he told a press and there was a nice piece that had a quotation, he said, of what the president does not h

it is a great pleasure to be here with lou again and with mr. goss, and mr. broder. it is a pleasure to meet you today. i will give you a chance to leave one wonderland which is the people of republic of berkeley and visit another one which is to come to washington, d.c., and defense the obama administration, which is not a position i'm usually used to being in. i'm happy to do it on this one occasion, although not for reasons that the obama agonists -- obama administration wanted. this friday the 60-day limit will pull on the obama administration, and that is the war powers resolution which says a president cannot have troops abroad in periods or informants of potential hostility for more than 60 days. unless he gets authorization from congress, they have to remove them. that means the libyan intervention is this friday. i think this puts president obama in a very tough position of his own creation. when he was campaigning for the presidency at the end of 27, he told a press and there was a nice piece that had a quotation, he said, of what the president does not hav

and then mr. goss goes on to say that over time he brought our committee to a bipartisan cooperation, which was desperately needed in order to successfully complete that matter. at the end of the day, the six of us came together in a unanimous recommendation. that's the type of person that jim cole is. he was professional and put policy ahead of politics. senator -- former senator john danforth evidence is at jim cole's confirmation hearing. a former republican member of the united states senate. he called jim cole a lawyer's lawyer. jim cole has support from democrats and republicans, former high officials within the department of justice have all recommended -- we have former deputy attorney generals appointed by both republicans and democrats supporting jim cole's nomination for deputy attorney general. let me just quote one other person i'd hope would be greatly respected on both sides of the aisle and that's fred fielding, the white house counsel for george -- for former president george w. bush.

congress's politicalca incentives they don't wantti to vote on for the reasons mr. goss gave. vietnam, i'm not sure, many people criticize as war powers today who think vietnam was constitutional becausenk of gulf of tonken resolution. many people say lyndon johnson lied to get congressd to pass a statute.o but congress passed thee. statute. every year there were significant increases in the military voted by congress. so the president and congress agreed on vietnam for a long time. congress acted every year. they could have easily stopped. year. how did the vietnam war end? congress cut off funding, and the war ended just like that. sometimes we confuse lack of political will for some kind of constitutional defect. i think the house and senate just did not want to use that ample powers they had in vietnam. >> nixon said it was unconstitutional, and that is why he vetoed it, but for a different reason than you indicate. i do not think it says the president can do anything he wants for 60 days. it just as the constitutional powers of the president to introduce troops -- hostili

the last thing i will touch on it is the thing mr. goss mentioned, which is consequences. if we do have a choice of systems, which system actually results in the best outcome for the united states and the world? people who have set up the national security system we have to date for making decisions are shaped by the world's warii experience. if the united states and executive branch had been able to act faster, that we might have been able to ensure the war faster and that hitler would have been brought down a lot earlier. it is not the case that requiring the president and congress to agree on everything produces better results for the country when it comes to foreign affairs. loss of wars have been bad for the country where the president and congress agreed, where congress was pushing for war and the president was reluctant. >> office of legal counsel, legal memo. "since at least the korean war, the u.s. does not as recognized the continued existence of the united nations as an effective international organization is of paramount united states interest." what is this la

and then mr. goss goes on to say that over time he brought our committee to a bipartisan cooperation, which was desperately needed in order to successfully complete that matter. at the end of the day, the six of us came together in a unanimous recommendation. that's the type of person that jim cole is. he was professional and put policy ahead of politics. senator -- former senator john danforth evidence is at jim cole's confirmation hearing. a former republican member of the united states senate. he called jim cole a lawyer's lawyer. jim cole has support from democrats and republicans, former high officials within the department of justice have all recommended -- we have former deputy attorney generals appointed by both republicans and democrats supporting jim cole's nomination for deputy attorney general. let me just quote one other person i'd hope would be greatly respected on both sides of the aisle and that's fred fielding, the white house counsel for george -- for former president george w. bush.