Senate Ready to Give Obama Unlimited War Powers to Fight ISIS

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With Sen. Joni Ernst, Dr. Bruce Bechtol and Rebeccah Heinrichs

Sen. JONI ERNST (R-IA), Member of the Senate Armed Services and Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committees:

• Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) needed to fully engage, defeat and destroy ISIS regardless of where they are
• Where else will the West face threats from the Islamic State?
• Importance of Guantanamo Bay for intelligence collection purposes

Dr. BRUCE BECHTOL, Associate Professor of Political Science at Angelo State University, former Intelligence Officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, President of the International Council on Korean Studies:

• North Korea’s nuclear capabilities
• Russia’s role in Pyongyang’s EMP development program
• China’s role in using sanctions to deter North Korean aggression

REBECCAH HEINRICHS, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, Vice Chairman of the Counter-Proliferation Working Group of the John Hay Initiative:

• Nature of the North Korean threat to the US
• State of the US missile defense system
• Hostile nations developing offensive systems specifically designed to exploit the weaknesses of US missile defense

(PART TWO):

• Needed security measures concerning the US nuclear missile defense system
• How long until North Korea and Iran outpace US nuclear capabilities
• Lack of political will to modernize US defense systems