Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) told Fox News he would vote to authorize military action against ISIL "in a heartbeat."
"To be clear," Fox's Bill Hemmer said, "you say airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq is something you favor. You're saying that airstrikes now in Syria against ISIS is something you favor."
"The president, if he were a leader, would come to Congress and call for a joint session of Congress, and he would ask for permission, that's the way the Constitution works," Paul said. "He would ask for permission to wage war against these people who are waging war against us. And the war would carry where it would carry, whether or not it's Syria or not."
"If the vote came to you, would you vote yes or no?" Hemmer asked.
"I would vote yes, and I would do it in a heartbeat," Paul said.
"Radical Islam, ISIS, is a threat to the United States," he said.
Paul has been under the spotlight for his apparent switch from his previously more isolationist tendencies. Paul defended himself against these charges: "We made a mistake where we intervened, but I never said we should never intervene."