the power has you the right to do that. of th >> yeah, the power of thegith purse super seeds -- even with the president's ability to wage war, if he cutoff funding c they cooperate do it.fu >> so they could have thevo votes to do it?certaly >> they tried to cutoffnd funding and we defeated them. i they have the right. it is an extreme right to use, o but i think in a case such as this, especially where itiay w involves using civilian courts on american territory, congress has a right to assert itself. >> let's shift to the christmas bomber. what has the white house told you about the interrogation of mutallab and the decision to ma ran dies him of a he decided to go quiet.n have they told you anything more than we read in the press? >> this white house is reluck, at the present time to telln you -- reluctant to tell you th anything involving the detroitl bombing or anything involving