If iran doesnt feel part of the effort . They are already there. So they are already making an effort without being part of a coalition. Secondly, the government of iraq if they want to talk, which they obviously do, they can do it. Thats got to be the filter. It cant be direct conversations with iran for practical reasons. I believe. Im someone who very strongly believes we ought to be negotiating with iran on the nuclear side. Against some very strong opposition to even talking to iran on the nuclear side. That to me is the number one goal right now is to avoid that catastrophe of iran getting a Nuclear Weapon. And i think this could muddy that water and confuse and complicate those negotiations if in another area we are relying on iran, because i think it could help, it could raise their expectations somehow or other, it could affect what they calculate we might be willing to do on a nuclear side. I dont want them to change their calculus. I want them to know how serious we are. And
The area of interest at the time. We get into these legal arguments that the groups we go after our pursuant to that authority and with that authority, somehow or other, it connected adequately to the group we were going after. It is a legal document and it has to be done with some real care. It is not done in the conflicts we have seen. We didnt have aumf in lybia. We have never had an aumf using airpower. I believe the president should get bipartisan support. I think the policy is right. I believe that the policy that he has laid out his right. For this moment to disagree on technical wordings a concurrent or joint resolution doing with those limits, no Ground Troops relying on a coalition. These are themes of this president which i happen to share. It gets to the point of if we are going to try to overcome the complexities of an aumf which might be a complex partisan debate. It leads to that because it is such a legal document that is binding law instead of supporting the title x fu
You and your colleagues have just started to absorb the information. How old you like to proceed in regard to combatting the inas you are insurgency . Isil needs ah be confronted and defeated. It needs to be removed as a threat to Regional Security in the middle east and theres a Security Threat to. United states of america. I think that there will obviously be debates about how to do that, butable that we will be unite the but i believe we will be united . Host can you give us some information about what you would like to see . Some of the options are taking the idea of authorizing, arming, and training the rebels and putting it into funding the government. Others say we should split them up and have two separate votes. And there are still others, i talked to jim moran, and he said that they should come back and have a full authorization of force debate in november after the election. Guest i believe that the process is what we will pursue. I think that there will be a consideration o
World you might never have expected. Google glass experiment. What happens when you spend days walking through the halls of congress with the latest technology, a lot. Hello, everyone. It is high noon in the east. Welcome to weekends with alex witt. We have developing now at this hour, 22 u. S. Embassies and consulates in 17 countries all closed today amid one of the most serious terror warnings in years. Most of those are in the middle east and north africa much the state department has issued a Worldwide Travel alert for americans, its the first since Osama Bin Laden was killed. It warns terrorists may elect to use a variety of means and weapons and target both official and private interests. That warning in effect through august. Security is also being increased across the u. S. Out of what authorities are calling an abundance of caution although they say there is no specific threat to the homeland and joint chiefs of staff general Martin Dempsey says the threat is specific and seri
Push the gops obamacare replacement plan, but conservatives are dead set against their partys plan. Can the veteran deal maker close the deal . And son of none, in hiding from the north korea regime, the son offers a new video speaking out for the First Time Since his father was publicly assassinated. Is he also on a hit list . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, members of the Senate Intelligence committee visit the cia and pour over raw Intelligence Data on russias interference in the election campaign. One senator tells cnn there is evidence of arc tichlt favoring one candidate. He wont discuss allegations of Trump Campaign involvement, but says the lawmakers have more questions. Meantime, President Trump has called for an investigation of his unsubstantiated claim that he was wiretapped during the campaign by president obama. Now hes got one. Leaders of the Senate Subcommittee are asking the Justice Department to see any