Consensus that daesh has to be stopped. Our nation is strongest, always has been when we act together. Theres a great tradition in this country of Foreign Policy having a special place that politics ends at the waters edge and that it will act on behalf of our nation without regard to party ideology. We simply cannot allow this collection of murderers and thugs to achieve in their group their ambition. Lets bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. Barbara, what are the main concerns that lawmakers have right now about the president s authorization for the use of military force, that request, the aumf as its called . Reporter what the senators are talking about is one of their biggest concerns is could a new authorization open the door to the administration being able to send a large number of Ground Combat forces into iraq. What were talking about are those traditional military units, large battalions brigades, formations truly in combat. A lot of concerns if they vote for t
Drones in front of the white house. And now, this latest chapter involves two agents, and the car wreck at the white house and allegedly booze. Michelle kosinski is not farr from the crash site known as the white house lawn. What is the latest that you are hearing . Right. Keep in mind that the seekcret service is not confirming any of the details coming out by the Washington Post, but they are not disputing any of the facts either. What the article is saying that about a week ago on march 4th, two of the top agent, and one of them the number two agent in the president s protective detail, and one is a supervisor and coming back from a work party, the retirement of the spokesperson of the secret service, and allegations that they were drinking at the party, and came upon this barricade at the white house, and there was an investigation going on, and some sort of pact inexplicably they showed the badges but then drove right through the tape and crashed their government car into the very
Mission. They train how they would fight, so they would train in this type of environment. Even in very heavy follow . They train as they fight. I want to bring in cnns Victor Blackwell in hammond, louisiana, where that helicopter is based. Victors joining us on the phone, as i know youre still gathering information on the ground. Whats the latest in this search . Reporter anna the reason im not able to be in front of a camera were driving on to Louisiana Army National Guard in hammond. The Major General in charge is holding a News Conference at the top of the next hour and were setting up to bring the comments on the latest in the search live to everyone. But we have a bit of good news here. The only good news this morning after this accident is that the weather in the search area is starting to clear. The fog is starting to lift making this search a little easier for the coast guard. Florida fish and wildlife and the others searching for the 11 missing Service Members and parts of th
But he its not unusual an we i was a very very deep investigation to find out what happened. And of course spider the searchandresidue mission is still under way we understand theres been some debris found this cant be a very big debris field, this was a helicopter. Absolutely. Training down at this part of the panhandle of florida is a routine location for special opes units, so the profile of the mission, the type of mission that was taking place, this is, this is what happens all the time down there. And so a tragedy like this clearly attributable to some factor that might have been weather at this time of year. Clearly we cant jump to any conclusions, but youre correct. The debris field could be spread out a little bit. There would be a narrow search corridor. There was another bird that was used in tandem to this one. So clearly other folks theres a live sighting of where this debris field is. They probably saw this bird go down. This was a uh60 blackhawk helicopter. What do we kn
Serious challenge. We all took an oath to protect the nation and its interests but to do so we must work together. I know everyone on this Committee Takes the isil threat seriously. President obama and everyone at this table does as well. We encourage a serious debate but i urge you to pass the president s aumf because it provides the Necessary Authority and flexibility to wage our Current Campaign and because it will demonstrate to our men and women in uniform some of whom are in harms way right now that all of us stand unflinchingly behind them. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman Ranking Member distinguished members of this committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. Let me begin by adding my personal thoughts and prayers to those of the secretary defense at the loss of the folks on that helicopter. A reminder to us that those who serve put themselves at risk both in training and in combat. We will work with the services to ensure those survivors or their