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Takes chrome of war making powers, that we dont rely, on the case of the afghanistan war, the iraq war, on a congressional mandates that come back from 2001, i know going forward my committee, the intelligence committee, has started a deep dive into what went right and what went wrong in terms of our exit in afghanistan. i supported getting out but clearly there were lessons learned. lets have congress and both parties step up and do a better job of executive oversight. >> my old president liken...

You were the only person voting in that way, very boldly, very courageously. today though you have the very anti-war squad, you have aoc, ilhan omar and others. you even have republican allies in the house and the senate when it comes to restraining presidential war making powers. i wonder, what do you make of this shift on foreign policy that you have personally seen in the last 20 years in congress? >> well, this took a lot of movement building, a lot of public education, young people around t...

Paul udahl bill, to bring troops home from investigation, and my bill, these are both bipartisan to get rid of these some by authorizations dealing with military force in iraq and we will have in the next two weeks a third mat wrer the senater wh president is expected to pass it. congress is starting to paul back war making powers that are hours pursuant to article one and we need to. >> in october of 2017 after that last vote didnt succeed, the senate foreign relations committee held a hearing ...

Second of all, the american people are catching on to the nature of the regime in saudi arabia which is leading this effort. and we should not be part of their military adventurism in my view. and the third point, one that senator lee has been talking about for a long time is the simple constitutionality of the issue. and that is that congress is clear. the constitution is very clear. it is the congress that has war-making powers, not the president of the united states. this war is unauthorized ...

Succumb to starvation if we do not end this horrific war. second of all, the american people are catching on to the nature of the regime in saudi arabia which is leading this effort. and we should not be part of their military adventurism in my view. and the third point, one that senator lee has been talking about for a long time is the simple constitutionality of the issue. and that is that congress is clear. the constitution is very clear. it is the congress that has war-making powers, not the...

Treaty with russia signed in 1987 by president ronald regan. the intermediate range nuclear forces or inf treaty ee lwas to protect people from the threat of nuclear war. with war making powers increasingly in the hands of the president and not congress, what does it mean to have this kind of president in charge? michael besloss is here. my current reading. michael, its always great to talk to you. >> thank you so much for having me, joy. >> one of the things you talk about in this book is somet...

And the speaker, you know, got some pushback from some of the members on that call for basically being critical of the president, putting some distance between himself and candidate trump at the time. i basically spoke up and supported him. i think i was the only one on the call to do that. the speaker has always been in this tough spot. he wants to advance an agenda. someone said, oh, have he and others engaged in a fallacy bargain, a devils bargain, if you will. i guess history will judge that...

They propose military force in so many situations that certainly it was not the right answer. and so then you add in his personal concern about the information that continues to be compiled by the special prosecutor about the by the special prosecutor about the extent of his teams involvement and contact with russia during the election and also potentially his personal business enterprises that intermingled with russian funds. so the presidents i think feeling tremendous personal pressure, treme...

Aggressive. they see military force as a response to almost anything going on in the world. they propose military force in so many situations that certainly it was not the right answer. and so then you add in his personal concern about the information that continues to be compiled by the special prosecutor about the by the special prosecutor about the extent of his teams involvement and contact with russia during the election and also potentially his personal business enterprises that intermingl...