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Whoops, ND Sen. Kevin Cramer Has Forgotten How To Speak! It's coming up on four years of Republican politicians living in fear of becoming a Presidential tweet target. Three plus years of carefully choosing the right words that won't rock the boat.  Our entire Congressional delegation emerged out of hiding last week to back the President, and more importantly, his supporters, on one more kamikaze flight of folly to the floor of the Supreme Court. Well, maybe not the "floor"- but they made it to the porch steps. Welcome back guys! Getty Images But, like a hermit who hasn't spoken a word aloud...

  U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), a Senate Armed Services Committee member, issued the following statement after the Senate passed this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA): “As it has every year for the last 60 years, Congress passed legislation today to fulfill our most foundational obligation of providing for the defense of our nation. This year’s National Defense Authorization Act strengthens our military, supports our troops, enhances national security, and contains several North Dakota priorities. I am honored to have helped write this legislation and grateful we w...

>> the question from senator cramer and young is for counsel of the president. manager schiff regularly states that if the president is innocent, he would agree to all of the witnesses and documents that the managers want. is the president the first innocent defendant not to waive his rights? >> mr. chief justice, senator, thank you for that question, because the answer obviously is no, the president is not the first innocent defendant who decided not to waive his rights. and i think it is striking and shocking that one of the arguments that has been repeatedly deployed by the house managers t...

He's a now a republican senator, senator cramer who's on state of the union this morning. rather than echoing that, here is what he said. >> i am not sure the president have a lot of choices. we over simplify the relationships. the logical question is we prepare to stay and fight the turks and given the fact that the turks seem to be committed to come across the border and establishing this militarize zone. the president has a decision make as to which do we stand with in the circumstances. >> we have seen lindsey graham being two face on this issue with syria and the kurds. he's always with t...

>> and one last question. do you also support legislation to change the emergency declaration powers so that this pickle that congress is in, particularly his fellow republicans, doesn't happen again? >> i am, dana, open to that. i'm open to doing something in the future as we move forward. i really didn't like tying that effort to this because i think it misrepresented the legality of what the president is doing. i think we ought to look at a whole bunch of presidential powers and see if the congress can't come back together and claw back and putting authority where it belongs, and that, of c...