joins offing us now democratic senator tim cain.od morning, senator. >> great to be with you. thanks. >> are you and your fellow lawmakers to blame for the u.s. russian relations right now. >> that presidential tweet is relick douse. the relationship is at a low because vladimir putin is invading sovereign nations, attacking american mon ten nation gran french elections, is violating missile treaties and doing all kinds of negative things. for the president to not call out russia on that and say the relationship is low because of congress, why does he keep thinking he needs to be vladimir putin's defense lawyer and take pressure off him and not call him out for bad behavior and pretend it's congress's fault is a head scratcher. >> why do you think he does that. >> it's clearly deeply insecure about the ongoing russia investigation that's being conducted by the special prosecutor mueller and the investigation that the intelligence committee especially here in the senate is conducting. these investigations clearly he finds them very t

my work with tim cain to get an aumf nominee. >> 23 members of the senate were there to still vote on it. more than 300 members in the house has never voted on an aumf. we like this more than we should in the house and senate because then we can blame the president, republican or democrat for what they're doing or not doing with regard to isis or responding to other non-state actors when we should take our constitutional prerogative to declare war or authorized use of force and we've given that away. >> charlie: when should the president not have to go to congress. >> when there's danger. no president wants to accept that but they abide by the structure generally. when we have a long-term e engagement largely now with non-state actors we have to have a template where congress weighs in and that's what we tried to put together and i think we'll get there. you have bob corker and ben carden as chair and ranking members and they're reasserting the congress's role in these areas and hoping we can get that. the senate has six-year terms. we approved treaties, we have more responsibility fo

will unveil his decision in a televised address tonight and in advance, some democrats like senator tim cain signaled u.s. involvement. >> what we need to do is make sure afghanistan is not a breeding ground for things to come back and hurt us. >> reporter: mr. trump opposed increased forces on the campaign trail, but the plan has strong support from his generals and national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. >> it's a very big decision for me. i took over a mess. we're going to make it a lot less messy. but that has been a place, 17 years, our longest war. >> you have full confidence in your national security adviser? >> yes, i do. general mcmaster? yes, i do. >> his biggest opponent in the white house had been steve bannon who favored privatization. with him gone, many are speculating that tonight president trump will announce more troops. abc news, washington. >>> president trump is addressing the nation tonight as we just discussed, with the details on his work plan in afghanistan. join us for abc's coverage of the president's speech live at 6:00 p.m. >>> a man opens fire on a judge outsid

after the ceremony was done, senator tim caine and governor mccullough came out to appeal for healing and also for virginia to move forward past its sometimes checkered racial past. >> i'd like that to be the message for all americans. we got to move forward together. we've got to stop the rhetoric. we've got to stop the language. we've got to work together. our nation is a nation of immigrants. it is that great mosaic tile that has made us the great united states of america. >> reporter: someone asked mccall live after that will you remove all confederate monuments from virginia. neither answered. i asked them, especially governor mccauliffe. will you repute the violence from the left? he didn't answer that either. sandra? >> sandra: doug mcelway, thank you for that. as the nation recovers from last week's events in virginia, our next guest has a new idea aimed at bridging the gap between our past and modern day. instead of tearing down confederate monuments, she says build more statues to commemorate for our notable minorities, freedom fight ers. cheryl, it's a difficult subject, bu

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