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I think maybe we all need a cheat sheet to follow it all. i am like you and old enough to remember watergate. it was also complicated. there were many, many strains. there were the tapes of mr. butterfield, there were oval office conversations involving john dean and haldeman and erlichman. there was a conspiracy to break into brookings. there was of course the break-in itself that triggered watergate. there were the pentagon papers. there were dirty tricks, lots of separate investigations invol...

I have to tell you one more thing. party from the politics. a man who would assume these acting powers is not exactly known for being restrained or conservative about federal power. mr. cuccinelli has advocated for war powers, like controlling migration. and it was that war footing he invoked accusing obama of an invasion of immigrants. he backed something that could literally be unconstitutional trying to end the tradition that people who are born here are citizens. and he once compared immigra...

So, to fight back against big pharma for many of my colleagues that came to pass important reforms that are needed, we cant do it when the president of the united states continues to lie to the american people, continue to not follow through on subpoenas, and give us the information we need. >> why do you think you cant convince a majority of house democrats that its time to impeach him? >> no, i think it is moving towards that. its going to demand it. it already is. this is a time in our countr...

Congressional approval. an emergency power to sell $8 billion worth of weapons in the case of the saudis so the saudis can ostensibly use those arms to bomb yemen in a war that so far has cost tens of thousands of lives and resulted in the worst cholera outbreak in modern times. to be clear, the humanitarian crisis in yemen is so ghastly and shocking to the conscience that both houses of congress voted for the first ever invocation of war powers to stop the saudi-led war in yemen. congress would...

To appear to be threatening americans with their own government against them if they go against him. listen, this was a strong rebuke of the president, this vote on the emergency declaration in the senate and in the house. and whether he vetoes it or not is really not the point. because the president has been rejected. i think when this ends up in the courts, as it will, it will finally reinforce congress separation of powers and congress authority over our purse and the powers of the purse. >> ...

Theyre sort of zombies that just float out there in space. and if a president wants to try to use them to bootstrap now military action without going to congress, he says congress already authorized this. so todd young and i of indiana, we have a bill to repeal the two iraq authorizations that you mentioned the were going to have a vote next week of really war powers vote in the next couple of weeks about whether to withdraw all u.s. support for saudi activities in the yemen civil war. and fin...

We have utilized the war powers acting to move us forward to end the horrific saudi-led war in yemen. together, as so many of our young people very received criminal records for nonviolent offenses, we have fought to end the war on drugs and have seen state after state decriminalize the possession of marijuana. and are beginning to see states and communities expunk the records of those who are arrested for marijuana. we have won some victories but clearly we have a long, long way to go. and i am...

Security elements that are so richly needed and the political solution that can ultimately take down the risk that afghanistan has presented to the united states for 17 years. >> bret: the last thing, mr. secretary. up on capitol hill, there have been recent votes including by senate republicans on saudi arabia, yemen, war powers, on russian sanctions. at some points undercutting the presidents foreign policy. is this a growing trend and what do you think about it? vehicle i am going to say that...

Cover-up on saudi arabia and the killing of khashoggi. >> absolutely. there were two steps, one was to directly blame mohammed bin salman in contradiction of the president, after these embarrassing noncredible briefings they received from mike pompeo and jim mattis and the other was to actually take back power from the white house, to actually act within the context of the war powers and say we will not consent to the use of our forces in yemen where a genocidal situation is building. it was ext...

To pretend washington, d.c., isnt burning around this incompetent president. >> lets not overlook this rebuke joined by democrats of the trump policy of basically cover-up on saudi arabia and the killing of cash og gkhashoggi. >> absolutely. there were two steps, one was to directly blame mohammed bin salman in contradiction of the president, after these embarrassing noncredible briefings they received from mike pompeo and jim mattis and the other was to actually take back power from the white h...