sean duffy, i want to start with you.lumn in "the national review," in part you say this in 2011 our president jeopardized our homeland when deciding acting on a campaign slogan about troop withdrawal from iraq was more important than securing the fragile democracy. my question to start things off with a healthy debate wasn't at any time previous president who got us in this mess who was guilty of the original sin that set us on this path? >> listen you're absolutely right, mika. george bush has a lot to blame with breaking iraq. but the bottom line is he passed off a stable iraq to barack obama and i did want to see our troop surge come down in iraq but to think that you have no troops in iraq to help stabilize that democracy, i think that's led a space for isis to rise up, garner strength and start to be a huge threat to the american people and to the region as a whole. >> sean, americans though and a lot of people in your own district wouldn't have supported attacks on syria a year ago. >> you're right. that's differen

congressman marsha blackburn from tennessee voted for the bill and sean duffy voted against it, both republicans. mr. duffy, please explain your vote. >> listen, bill, i don't trust the president to vet the syrian rebels. his foreign policy has been a disaster. you look at what he's done in egypt and iran and without putting together an effective strategy in those regions, i don't trust he'll be able to vet in syria. i voted no not only for that but reasons in regard for this president's heart isn't in the fight. he gave a 14-minute speech and he's done everything to tell america what he won't do to win. i'm not going to put ground troops in but he will say i'm going to do air strikes. that strategy is not sufficient -- >> is there anything that president obama could have said or done that would have persuaded you to support his campaign against isis? anything? >> absolutely. we're going to put every ounce of american military power behind the defeat of isis -- >> if you were more hawkish you would have voted yes. okay. >> and the reason is, bill, i think you're able to save american

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one of them sean duffy out of wisconsin. this is his reason why. he said i just don't trft the commander in chief -- don't trust the commander in chief. >> i don't trust the president. his foreign policy has been a disaster. you look at what he's done in egypt, libya and iran. without being able to put together an effective strategy in those regions, i don't trust he's going to be able to vet in syria. i voted no not only for that but also other reasons in regard to this president's heart isn't in the fight. >> there's a lot of democrats who just thought the plan is not a good plan and certainly not all worked out especially if you watched the secretary of state try to defend it and try to say the word war. joining the fray of those with questions speaking up firmly, "the washington post" and "new york times" have one thing in common today. they cite the tension between the pentagon and white house on this plan. general odierno, general dempsey, all at different times let it be known that this plan is not workable, not practicable without our men a