Brown live at the pentagon, what do we know. Reporter the 59 tomahawk missiles were targeting this air base that the pentagon believes was linked to the chemical attack. They show them leaving and returning, its all designed to disable the base preventing it from conducting future operations and the pentagon says it was to prevent assad from carrying out any future attacks, and avoiding striking any russian personnel, they used existi existing de conflicticonflictin to avoid hitting russians. A missile that allows, prevents any threats to u. S. Pilots but punishing strikes against this air base. Thank you very much. Theres a lot to cover. A lot of ramifications and immediate impacts as we learn that information, we will. President trump called these strikes vital to national security. Thats going to be key to whether or not they were necessary to stop assad and whether or not they are legal. Does syria represent a true threat to the u. S. . Lawmakers seem split but there was no move to
they were complicit in not doing that. there was not a war powers act, all of the things are going to be a factor but do have a republican congress and senate both supporting president trump on this as well as the support on the world stage. we will get the answers to how congress is feeling for everyone on new day. coming up we ll have several members of congress on to discuss the strikes, congress meth multien, marco rubio, tim kaine and cory gartner. we are getting information on what was the effect of the 59 tomahawk missiles hitting a syrian air base. when new day returns, we ll have more information.
control of the federal troops. the southern states were legally part of the union again but only because they had lost the war. and so they were also kind of occupied territories. and they hated it. after years of the reconstruction era of the southern state capitals being occupied by federal troops after the civil war, white southern lawmakers used a series of political machinations that would make a senator blush to wrangle through congress at the time a law to basically get those federal troops, those hated yankee union troops out of the south. from and after the passage of this act it shall not be lawful to employ any part of the army of the united states as a posse comitatus. that last part is latin. posse comitatus means power of the county. and throughout history, going back to england, it refers to the county government. specifically the county sheriff as the supreme law of the land. our posse comitatus act in 1878 said federal horses could no longer essentially sup
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paying for. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. a fiery president obama isn t holding back with two potential showdowns looming in washington, one of them now only four days away. he s sounding a lot like candidate obama in his latest obama care event, the president accusing republicans of blackmail and worse, vowing he won t negotiate when it comes to last minute gop attempts to stop his controversial health care legislation from taking effect in exchange for a deal to keep the federal government from shutting down. our senior white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us now from the white house. she s got the very latest. what a day it s been. reporter: sure has been, wolf. president obama trying to escape the beltway politics, just barely going outside the beltway to a community college if prince georges county, maryland, pushing his signature health care reform law as the online marketplace for obama care is set to open on tuesday. now, this co