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Speaker 1: lives with Congressman Warren Davidson. Welcome back, arm Davidson. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate your regular willingness to spend some time with my

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Speaker 1: listeners with me about these all important issues going on.

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Speaker 1: It's good to have you back on the show, Sir.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I always love it. Nice to talk with you. Brian,

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Speaker 2: thank you if you don't mind.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we can talk about Save Act, the government shutdown

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Speaker 1: that's going on, TSA, and all that goes along with it,

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Speaker 1: but I wanted to start with Iran if we could. Yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the Senate defeated a measure to advance a war powers resolution,

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Speaker 1: same thing that happened earlier in the month when the

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Speaker 1: House defeated a proposal sponsored by Congressman Massy and Rocanna.

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Speaker 1: I know that you were on the side of Massy

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Speaker 1: on that one, but this left me with a question

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Speaker 1: I kind of started thinking about the Iranian position. They

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Speaker 1: have to have some measure of understanding about the War

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Speaker 1: Powers Act SLASH Resolution nineteen seventy three, and the way

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Speaker 1: I understand it absence specific authorization, authorization and use of

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Speaker 1: military force which hasn't happened yet, or a declaration of war.

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Speaker 1: Congress TikTok, the clock starts running on the sixty days.

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Speaker 1: So if you don't have a warp authorization for use

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Speaker 1: subject to a thirty day extension to do so. So

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Speaker 1: is the clock running and what will it mean if

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Speaker 1: the let's say ninety given the extra thirty days, If

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Speaker 1: the ninety days runs out and there has been no

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Speaker 1: congressional action, does Trump literally have to pull all the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, you know, the keyword here is there's three

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Speaker 3: ways that the War Powers Resolution kicks in, and neither

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Speaker 3: of those. The first two apply when there's not been

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Speaker 3: is in order to prevent an imminent attack. And that's

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Speaker 3: why you see things like you know, what is the

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Speaker 3: word imminent? Right, you know, Tom Cotton saying it's been

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Speaker 3: imminent for forty seven years, which is nonsensical. But you

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Speaker 3: saw like Pulsey Gabbert's you know, very carefully crafted statement

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Speaker 3: Trump considered you know, Iran attack imminent and therefore he's

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Speaker 3: in compliance with the war power saying so you know this,

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Speaker 2: Depends on the word. What is the what does the

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Speaker 3: Okay, Now, the president basically, according to the war powers,

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Speaker 3: So essentially have essentially have ninety days to kind of

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Speaker 3: You know, this, this debate isn't unprecedented. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: So this all comes down to subjective interpretation. So if

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Speaker 3: Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I mean, look, that's that's what President

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Speaker 3: Trump was reluctant to go to war. I mean, he's

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Speaker 3: We're sending carriers over there and and you know, a

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Speaker 2: So you know, I wasn't.

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Speaker 3: know what President Trump found persuasive and imminent, and I

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Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned the constitutional crisis, and I can see

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Speaker 1: Practically speaking, it is. And we've learned a lot of

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I mean, look, this is the thing. You can't put

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Speaker 3: And you know, there's a I think that at the

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Speaker 3: of Iran, Uh, you needed to keep that circle incredibly small.

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Speaker 2: They did that and it worked.

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Speaker 3: They kept it super small even within the administration according

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Speaker 3: But then that wasn't the the only goal. They laid

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Speaker 2: No one truly knows what his actual position is, you know.

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Speaker 3: And and and so that leaves a lot of uncertainty

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Speaker 3: that's I think that's the case. Says, do you go

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a year's long.

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Speaker 3: War that involves troops on the ground, and I honestly

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the case hasn't really been made for war

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Speaker 1: Well pause on that allies comment, because I'm really puzzled

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Speaker 1: So I can bring that back up, and we come

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Speaker 1: back seven to sixteen more with Congress Moaron Davidson of

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Speaker 1: this brief break and starting with colored electric fan Warren Davidson,

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Speaker 1: all Right, for we leave the Iranian contract conflict, I

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Speaker 1: going through the Strait of Hormuz just you know, fueling

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Speaker 1: by it. They had like a thirty day supply and

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Speaker 1: largely done it to themselves in pursuit of this nonsensical

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Speaker 1: global warming policies. But you know, if Iran ultimately maintains

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Speaker 1: threaten to cut it down. This is going to happen again.

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Speaker 1: Do you think between now and let's say it's stopped

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Speaker 1: today Iran still empowered? Are these countries other countries in

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Speaker 1: the world going to pursue all the above energy's policy

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Speaker 1: like we did, which frees us from our connections hard

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Speaker 1: lesson we learn in nineteen seventy three with the OPEC embargo.

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Speaker 1: But we're not there anymore, opek and show off the flow.

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Speaker 1: We're still going to have our own supplies. I know

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Speaker 1: global supply is the point of the price point, But

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Speaker 1: do you think this is going to cause a like

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Speaker 1: the world. Will we learn a lesson like COVID that, gee,

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Speaker 1: we rely on Chinese exclusively for our pharmaceuticals. That's a

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Speaker 1: bad path to beyond le need to change things. Congressman Davidson, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I hope so for their sake.

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Speaker 3: But I think of the other thing is it exposed

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Speaker 2: It won't take long.

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Speaker 1: Ford Park Company, Congressman Davidson, and I've enjoyed this conversation

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Speaker 1: I certainly appreciate it. I know I always hear from

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Speaker 3: It's an honor to do the work, and it's always

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