On authorizing military force soon after lawmakers return. They are still on summer recess until september 9th. There are washington heavyweights who are getting on the record early on this. Peter doocy is joining us live on capitol hill for the latest from there. Peter . Thats right, jaime. President obama announced yesterday the United States needs to use military force against syria for moral reasons and also for National Security reasons to prevent future chemical weapons use possibly he says against american interests. But he wants the folks here in congress on his side. He wants them to vote in favor of authorizing that military force first. Now he has a little more than a week to try to make them fall in line. This case is going to build stronger and stronger and the president believes the United States of america for a decision like this is stronger when you have the time to be able to have the support of the United States congress and obviously the support of the American Peop
We also have congressman Erick Swalwell racing towards us because we just got word that that closed door deposition just ended one minute ago. And congressman swalwell has been in it all the way and that of course has just taken over the number one position the way well begin tonight with new details about the cell phone call from restaurant in ukraine over heard by david holmes and who knows who else. I mean im very excited to hear what congressman swalwell is able to tell you about the deposition. Having access to the Opening Statement from that witness, that witness is able to give us jawdropping detail about the call which puts the president at the center of this scandal. In addition to that, the witness is giving us corroborating information and testimony about other elements of othis scandal in terms of what he was able to see from the u. S. Embassy in ukrain and he was there after Marie Yovanovitch has left. A lotf of the criticism was you werent there when the worst of all of i