give the same message to the president, which is you need to come to congress and get a vote to authorize action if you intend to take military action. when you add up the signers from both letters, it's 265 members of congress who have told the president that he is not permitted to act absent authorization. >> there was another her. speaker john boehner wrote a really lengthy letter, spelling out 14 different questions that he wants the president to answer to the congress and the american people. but that letter fell short of saying that congress would need to take a vote. is it your belief that it would have to take a vote? >> not only is it my belief, president obama when he was running for president said the same thing. without a vote, yeah, then senator obama said that, vice