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Question. the president cannot declare war or engage militarily overseas without the authorization of congress. that's for good reason. we didn't want to create an imperial presidency who could bring us in and out of war without consulting the people. and this is the people's branch of government, the congress. yes, the president likely has the ability to strike militarily if he is preventing an imminent attack against the united states. but absent that imminent attack, there is no argument that the president can take strikes against iran or any other country without coming to congress, and we...

Customary senatorial courtesy. rudy giuliani doesn't get that. >> rudy would be a blood bath on the hill. >> no question. anything that donald would give rudy? donald does feel obligation to rudy because rudy was out there more than anything else. >> ed, he shouldn't tell him. rudy will go around telling everyone because he's out front. rudy out front. >> anything that rudy would be interested in short of secretary of state? >> not initially. boxed him in. >> that's the thing, mark. you just said it. it was such bad form. i got to tell you, i don't care if my mother wanted to be secretary of s...

The fact ted cruz refused to endorse in the senate primary. he said, i'm not supporting any from my party or their opponents. i imagine relationships with him and john cornyn are not super awesome right now. >> i can tell you a lot of cornyn supporters in texas cannot figure out what ted cruz is up to. it wouldn't have killed ted cruz, they say, to say a few nice words about john cornyn, to endorse him, senatorial courtesy, tradition and all that. he didn't do it. it looks like cornyn, as you said in the setup piece, is going to win without a runoff, will return steve stockman to the private s...

Exploit that and separate some conservatives from the cornyn campaign. not only did it never happen, i think everybody began to wonder whether the stockman campaign, as i've said before, was a prank. it seemed like something that the cornyn campaign created just to make him look awesome. >> yeah. >> because the fact is, stockman campaign was one of the most bizarre periods i think we've seen in modern texas political history. >> i've heard it referred to as an andy kaufman-esque conference art piece, referred to as a straight-up griff, a con meant to essentially create a kind of exit into, i d...

Opponents. i imagine relationships with him and john cornyn are not super awesome right now. >> i can tell you a lot of cornyn supporters in texas cannot figure out what ted cruz is up to. it wouldn't have killed ted cruz, they say, to say a few nice words about john cornyn, to endorse him, senatorial courtesy, tradition and all that. he didn't do it. it looks like cornyn, as you said in the setup piece, is going to win without a runoff, will return steve stockman to the private sector and the period of time we witnessed in the last couple months will go down in the history books. it will be f...