Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170408:10:20:00
Officials from all over the country to vote to start a war. congress wouldn't even take a vote on president obama's request to them to authorize u.s. military force in syria in 2013. congress is structurally disinclined toward war and the founders knew they would be. they knew that a deliberative body would be less likely to wage war recklessly as compared to one person who could make that kind of decision alone. over these past couple of generations, we have let that constitutional imperative slip. and now we've got, in power, a person with the war-making powers of a modern american president...