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Branch to oversee the executive and direct it not to follow unconstitutional laws. to say that the assault on presidential authority is a novel thing is wrong. plus, i mean just to finish it all off, thats why we fought a revolution against the unchecked authority of an executive branch. >> and stuart, we know that the attorney general spoke at the federalist society last week to a round of applause from the audience there. he basically assert that the president never overstepped his authority. ...

President trumps war time powers. i want to know why now and what effect you think this will have, what this would actually do? >> well, weve seen the last few years of foreign policy by tweet. congress has had to have a resolution on yemen, president trump turned his back on the kurds, he had to make a decision midair on whether he was going to war with iran. this is not how the united states has historically conducted foreign policy and its dangerous. so i introduced a resolution yesterday on ...

Im a little confused here. are you going to be declarative? >> this is the equivalent of war powers for the president. >> you want that? you believe the next president should have these kind of powers to do this? this should not be done through congress. this is too much of an emergency to take out it have the presidents hands, is that fair? >> what im saying is this, i would give congress 100 days. thats over three months to pass some form of the green new deal. were talk about is a threat to t...

Connecticut mom, the girlfriend of the estranged husband now heading back to court. attorneys say shes got an alibi for the night in question and they want the charges against her to be dropped. we are live at the courthouse at the top of the hour. plus, the senate trying to check president trumps war powers voting right now to force him to go through congress if he wants to order a strike on iran. we are live at capitol hill nex next. >> i expect it will be defeated, i would love to have some d...

>> i like the idea of keeping congress abreast but i wouldnt have to do that. >> nancy pelosi said you must have congressional approval. >> i disagree. most people disagree. i like to keep them abreast but he doesnt have to do it legally. >> he likes to keep them abreast? >> he has to do that, actually. >> im sure congressional leaders, both republican and democrat, will have issue of his concept that he just wants to keep them abreast of international military actions. >> in the short-term, the...

Theyve got proxies in iraq. theyve killed americans over the years. they are not good guys. they need to be confronted. the question is, how do you confront them most effectively to get to where you want? which is to get them to stop those malign activities without getting to the place where war looks more likely than not. >> yes or no question, i think it is, should he be required to get congressional approval to commit an act of war against iran? >> yes. >> okay. i like that. >> now, the quali...

Preserve all existing pro-life protections and future spending bills and has questions about the buildup of troops in the middle east amid growing tensions with iran. republican senator from utah mike lee sits on the senate judiciary committee among other things. good to have you with us tonight. not often i see your name alongside bernie sanders but you have signed a letter together in which you are asking serious questions about what is going on with iran. as part of the letter, a bipartisan g...

Become a blank check for war. we have abdicated our responsibility. we have been missing in action. we have a job to do for the american people. . >> and im joined now by congresswoman barbara lee, democrat from california, and former republican congressman tom coleman from missouri. good evening to both of you. >> good evening. >> good evening. >> congresswoman, youre clearly concerned about this, and you appear to be making progress. what would your amendment do specifically to limit president...

Now to an important fight between congress and the trump white house over who has the power to send america to war. a group of democrats with some republicans are on the verge of passing a new bill to limit trumps war powers. backers say its a chance to finally curtail military powers that grew under bush and kept growing under obama and trump. the house may vote as soon as tomorrow on this measure curtailing powers congress originally gave president bush for a single goal, getting al qaeda and ...

This is a huge shift from march and april of 2017 when the freedom caucus was rightly seen as the biggest obstacle in trumps path to repeal and replace obamacare. he was calling out by name and it worked. he brought the freedom caucus. it is an ideologically philosophically based thing does not exist. it is an attack dog for donald trump. >> it is fascinating to hear you say that. you have the credibility. and it goes to how we understand these things. if the tea party and the freedom caucus wer...