mueller got an advantage by moving the case to the district of columbia, that he has a better chance of getting a favorable jury pool and the district of columbia then he bought in virginia. everybody would agree with that. it s a simple statement of fact. laura: professor, a real quick question. rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general yesterday on fox news sunday denied that this was going to be some fishing expedition by bob mueller, that it had to come back toph him. asking for an increase scope in the investigation, if they wanted to issues regarding trump s other business dealings, other leases not involving russian collusion. are you satisfied with what he said, giving his own letter where he said, any matter that arose or may arise directly from the investigation that was in his authorizing and appointing letter of bob mueller. of course. it s a very, very mandate. let s remember that the clinton
commitment of military force in syria. the answer to your last question is, yes, congress should be involved. that s our responsibility and constitutional responsibility. there s no authorizing i believe gives any weight to troupes or syrias or invocation of force in syria. yes, congress should be involved. what worries me is an escalation, based on the pretext of the chemical weapons that ends up with us engaged in one of the most complicated and difficult messy confrontations on earth. you wouldn t anticipate broad support at least for the types of strikes we saw after the last chemical attack? you would anticipate- i think so. they ve been banned since world war i. this is an international expectation and moral norm.
extensive presentation than it is, but there is definitely a lot of concern here. i think that there s certain caution that is here and a divide over exactly what the president needs to do in terms of authorizing, and of course, that s going to defend, steve, on what the decision is and what sort of action that they decide to take. all right. chris jansing on capitol hill. chris, thanks for that. let s bring in jonathan swan, national political reporter for axeos. bill press, host of the bill press show. matthew, editor or the washington free beacon. thanks to all of you your joining us. jonathan swan, you re very well sourced when it comes to the inner workings of the white house. you wrote earlier today about the battle lines drawn inside the administration, steve bannon, of course, his role came into question in the last few days. take us inside this administration when it comes to an issue of a military response in syria. what are the lines, who s telling trump he should do t
capitol hill and in some of the questioning, of course democrats expressed reservations about using this force. the authorizing of the use of force. if these lawmakers are afraid of perhaps a prolonged war, what happens if congress doesn t go along with the aumf? well i would hope they do. i would hope everybody comes together. foreign policy is one of those things that we ve got to have a united front on. there s a very serious threat and you know frankly, the media has really helped bring this thing to a head by showing what the threat is there, and really forcing the hand of all of the decision-makers to make sure that we have a concerted effort going forward here and so i don t even want to contemplate that we don t get the authorized use of military force passed but the focus really needs to be on getting this thing passed and having all of the elements of
and highly skeptical of the agreement. i think there are lots of things there that cause me pause. i think it s tremendous, tremendously difficult effort to identify, to control and then dispose of all of these chemical weapons in a country with a civil war going on. we haven t defined the sites to be looked at or inspected and what would happen if it doesn t come about. will assad let them happen? it s extraordinarily difficult and then there s a timeline, a deadline of the middle of 2014. i want things to diplomatically and i m highly skeptical because of the thing that is are a severe challenge. you re skeptical but are you optimistic? you did vote against authorizing the you have been against the use of force by the president so this is a good first step, no? it is. absolutely. diplomatic efforts are where we need to be and make sure they re verifiable and put the pressure on all the parties involved, specifically syria to make sure