Some lawmakers argue the Biden needs congressional authorization to strike Yemen's Houthis amid reports the White House is planning a months-long campaign.
As a U.S. campaign of military strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen shows no signs of ending soon and questions mount about whether the United States is at war in the Middle East, some lawmakers are signaling they believe it's time for Congress to weigh in.
courtney kube, general mccaffrey, thank you for being with us. a lawmaker who has spoken out about this issue is mark pocan of wisconsin who is with us today. thank you very much for your time. you posted that the u.s. cannot risk getting entangled in to another decades long conflict without congressional authorization. what did you mean by that? i think what we re warning folks about, this is becoming a regional conflict. and i think the more important issue actually is what is happening in israel and gaza and the fact that benjamin netanyahu s end goal is different than the united states. that is a problem. for some of us who want to be very, very careful before any american man or woman in the military has to be put into conflict s way, we want to make sure everything else has been exhausted first and we re seeing this as potentially a broadening of that conflict and i think