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But will keep them updated. watch this. >> i have ideas that intelligent people come up with thoughts i actually learned a couple of things the other day. we had a meeting with congress. i do like keeping them abreast i don't have to do it legally. >> he said i learned a couple things. is that a step in the right direction? >> it seemed ominous. like he was assembling a dossier on the congress people. to your question about iran, trump, congress. two points that are important. it is crazy that we have had a situation where the authorization to use military force in the wake of the 9/11 attacks...

Wake of the 9/11 attacks, that's in 2001, is still being used as a blanket justification for military action all over the world in 2019. you know, that's the bottom line. both congress, i would say, and three successive presidents are to a certain extent complicit in why this is the case. but, you know, it's farcical in the extreme to say that this 2001 authorization would cover any military action. that is apparently exactly what the administration has been arguing in closed-door briefings with members of congress recently, giving vague illusions to the idea that iran is in league with al qae...

Not have supported it. it was also because he didn't have to take a vote on it. he was not at that time in a position where he would have taken a vote on it. his position was one that in many ways was a consensus position in hyde park in chicago, and so actually in certain ways, having been an establishment person that mrs. clinton was meant that she was on record for things that voters changed their minds about. >> right now i think it's important to think about the fact that the mainstreaming of xenophobic rhetoric, the mainstreaming of racial anxiety is something that a lot of voters are co...