but peter king says president obama is abdicating his responsibility as commander in chief. if assad s use of chemical weapons deserves a military response, and i believe it does, if the president is seeking congressional approval, he should call congress back into a special session at the earliest date. the president doesn t need 535 member of congress to enforce his own red line. on the democratic side, elliott he know will with a similar statement. i understand his desire to seek explicit authorizing to do so from congress. i call on the speaker to immediately recall the house back from its august recess and debate this critical issue as soon as possible. so back the panel. you re shaking your head. i think that s an interesting point about calling him back. i don t understand why you ve given the enormous of the issue before us, why you wouldn t say gentlemen, or ladies and gentlemen, time to come home. let s do business.
syria. will seek authorization for force from the representatives of congress. aides said the president decided to go in a different direction at almost the lasts minute. he made the stunning plans to seek congressional authorizing and then went for a walk. a 45 minute walk with his chief of staff, dennis is mcdonough. he announced his decision to his security staff spark ag heated debate and started to spread the word calling vice president biden, defense secretary chuck hagel and saturday morning he convened a meeting with intelligence officials to finalize the decision. the question is what do we collectively, what are we in the world going to do about it? reporter: just hours before the president s abrupt move, defense secretary kerry made an impassioned plea for action.
up. between eric holder and the house judiciary committee. obviously the house judiciary is being accused by holder supporters as being partisan in this regard. about you this was eric holder in previous tmt and this is what they re all talking about today. this is holder testifying about what role he did or did not play in the, leak investigations involving journalists. with regard to the potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material. that is not something that i ve ever been involved and heard of. or would think would be a wise policy. what he s being accused of is quote lying, which would be drawn to its final conclusion. if we ever were to get there. would be perjury. so lying to congress is a big deal. he s being accused of lying because of our own reporting and other reporting that he was involved in authorizing, he had recused himself on the a.p. case. but he did not recuse himself. he was involved in authorizing the investigation into james
the program that existed at that time. i think he is saying that he spoke off line quietly to some colleagues about reservations he had on some aspects of the program. i don t doubt he did that. i know john to be an honest, truthful person, but he also respected the chain of command at that time, and the program was authorized by the justice department and the other point that bears emphasis is that in the job he had he was not in the chain of command, if you will, for either creating, authorizing, overseeing, implementing the program and in his subsequent jobs after leaving the agency had no operational responsibility. do you have any regrets about that period? you were in the chain of command. i don t. i don t. you know, one has to get back into that period of time and reconstruct the context. we re talking ten years ago. just to give you an example,
$105 billion,. how did they get it in there? this is highly unusual to put spending in an authorization bill. the best way to describe it is to say we in the federal government could give a free ticket to disney world for every american. we could authorize that. but until we allocate the money appropriate it, nobody is going to go there. what speaker pelosi did is she combined both the authorizing and the appropriating. nobody expected it, including the congressional budget office. judge napolitano: why is it that certain states have been granted exemptions from it? today we learn the state of maine has been granted an exemption from virtually all aspects of this bill, so if you live in maine you don t have to comply with healthcare. if you are running the government of maine, governor of maine, the legislature of maine you don t to raise taxes and spend money as the feds try to tell you in the bill. question: how does maine get off the hook and the other 49 states don t? i want wa