rashard claridy congressman brown? robbie stott if you want to look at the obama administration's approach to syria, president obama came to congress and understood he was going to take the us military presence to address the challenges there, the emergence of isis, perhaps the stabilization of an unstable syria. there was an authorization to use military force. that is what a president not to do. layout the problem set and what a solution is and say i need authorization. congress rejected it. congress cannot bring itself to authorize military force. rashard claridy authorization of use in military force in syria would pass right now? robbie stott i don't think an authorization for use of military force -- let me back up. on a bipartisan basis members of congress, both chambers support a small footprint in syria. so i think there is support for that. the problem is congress hasn't considered taking up an authorization of use of military force for 17 years, and the last one recently since 2001 to go into afghanistan and