it s used as part of the justification. because why? because al qaeda was there. tied it back to the original 9/11 amuf. what happened in iraq? we know what happened there. many in congress felt burned by the intel failures and they didn t want to own this anymore and it it would be the last use of force congress has actually authorized. the most glaring example is what happened in 2013. syria s assad was believed to have used chemical weapons against his own people. the story would be obama vacillated on his own red line. there was room for criticism there. he did go to congress and ask for an aumf. congress wanted nothing to do with it, the bill stalled. right move, wrong issue, isn t the issue, it s that congress didn t want to do its duty. obama did bomb isis targets and ironically claimed he was authorized by the, you guessed it, aumf. we have troops all around the world in ugly conflicts you
on new day we test arguments and opinions, right? the way to do that is you have to go with the premise. that s what facts first is all about. have you to know what you can look at and say is objectively true and then everything should evolve from there. let s do that right now with this issue for the authorization for use of military force. what do we know? four american heroes are dead and others are injured despite being sent to niger to, quote, only advise and assist. but when you re in the middle of a war, there is no benign task. that s why the aumf is so important. the law is clear, article one, section 2 of the constitution lays out powers of congress and one of the most prominent is the power to declare war. they re supposed to hear a case from the president, military advisers and vote on whether or not to put u.s. blood on the line.
million people. thousands tens of thousands left without water and who knows for how long. cnn s leyla santiago is live in san juan with more. what is the situation on the ground? reporter: chris, the governor right now speaking at a press conference and he has told the people of puerto rico now it is time to work. he says, of course there is quite a bit of problems coming from irma, power being one of them. more than a million people without power right now, and that alone isn t the issue. this is an island with an economic crisis. they are very much in debt, and so the power system here lacks maintenance and funding. so they are saying that it could take not days but rather weeks, possibly months to restore the power for the people here in puerto rico. then there is the flooding. a lot of people dealing with that, especially on the eastern part of the island.
responsible? i think what he is using it as rhetoric to say to the u.s. senate you got to get off your duff and mitch mcconnell is saying i m having a vote to repeal similar to the one in 2015 and force members says maybe this isn t the issue of opioids or isn t the time to talk about planned parenthood. this is the time to get serious and i need to bring you back. you specifically said in this interview that to even say let it fall to pieces on its own weight is irresponsible and if there are things that can be added to this in your own amendment that you tried to add in 2013, that if things can be added to this law at that time to help the american people, people should do that. now you re saying that the president is saying, literally, we will let it fail isn t irresponsible? no. again, i think what he is saying he is using that as a threat to get the senators to come forward. remember, victor, the bill was
we re looking at 27% to about 15%. so the issue is that how much will that actually do for companies? if you end up lowering companies from 27% to 15%, will companies pews to employ people? stephanie is joining me now. if you want to create jobs that goose the economy, is this enough? balance sheet isn t the issue that corporate america faces. they are flushed with cash. we could lower our corporate tax rate to 15%. if those corporations are able to send their dollars overseas and get a better rate, they will. it is a race to the bottom if we re simply saying, we re going to let you corporations pay the least amount of taxes possible. that will force to you create jobs. i won t. we already have, you know this, a developed economy. this is not an emerging market and suddenly we can build.