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Speaker 2: All these networks lying about the people, the people have

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Speaker 3: Mega media?

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Speaker 1: I wish in my soul, I wish that any of

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Speaker 1: to save my country, this country will be saved.

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Speaker 2: War Room.

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Speaker 4: Here's your host, Stephen K.

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Speaker 1: Bath Saturday, twenty eight February, your ruler, twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: War and the rumors of war no longer rumor of

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Speaker 1: the United States commence major combat operations. As President Nied

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Speaker 1: State's commander chief told us earlier this morning, we're here.

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Speaker 1: We got Captain Fanel Brandon Wiker, Doctor Bradley Payers, Sam Fattis,

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Speaker 1: Joe Allen, d Mike Davis, whole crew today to actually

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Speaker 1: with our own, Jack Pasobic. Jack been very impressed the

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Speaker 1: last couple of days on Human Events Daily. You've gone

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Speaker 1: think you made Captain Fanell very proud walkers through where

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Speaker 1: what in the hell's going on, Jack Pasobic, The floor

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Speaker 4: Steve, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: On Human Events Daily, We've spent all weeks saying that

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Speaker 3: We're also, of course seeing Iran retaliating with strikes on

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Speaker 1: For regime change. Remember we're in the first what eight

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Speaker 1: Jack social media, until we get you back in the war,

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Speaker 4: We'll be here all day.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Sir, I appreciate you see in a little

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Speaker 5: A short time ago, the United States military began major

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Speaker 5: a vicious group of very hard, terrible people, its menacing

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Speaker 1: May God bless you all. Thank you, Commander in Chief.

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Speaker 6: Well, Steve, it's really a serious time in our history

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Speaker 6: In terms of attacking ground targets. We don't know what

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Speaker 4: And you'll notice I've.

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Speaker 1: Been hang on, hang on second, I gotta get Brandon

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Speaker 1: gonna get back to you. Stay right there, Brandon Weikert,

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Speaker 1: you called this just like Cavin finale. He said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: But he's waiting til he gets his assets in place,

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Speaker 1: and then he's going to hit your assessment now, sir,

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Speaker 2: That's exactly what happened, and I don't any pleasure in

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Speaker 2: an excellent assessment by both Captain Fannel and Jack, so

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Speaker 2: well done.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: But I think we need to also confirm something. I

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Speaker 2: have been told that the Wall Street Journal report is

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Speaker 2: correct that they have killed at least two IRGC commanders.

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Speaker 2: I have also been told that there is some concern

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Speaker 2: now that the Houthis are getting ready to launch long

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Speaker 2: range strikes against Israel. I would like to note that

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Speaker 2: so far, according to my guys in the UAE, the

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Speaker 2: American air defense or the air defense systems in the

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Speaker 2: region have so far held up, which is something I

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Speaker 2: did not think would be possible. Which either indicates to

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Speaker 2: me that the Americans and Israelis were more effective in

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Speaker 2: knocking out those missile launchers than I thought they would be,

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Speaker 2: or the Iranians are still trying to organize an effective CounterPunch.

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Speaker 2: But I think that's some good news this morning. And

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Speaker 2: also it looks a lot like according to Bloomberg two

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Speaker 2: hours ago, and I think this was going to happen anyway.

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Speaker 2: The oil companies are now redirecting the flow of oil

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Speaker 2: away from the Strait of Hormuz to other areas because

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Speaker 2: the Huthis are already starting to impose their blockade again

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Speaker 2: of the Red Sea. So to me, it looks like

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Speaker 2: the first strike packages of the United States and Israel

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Speaker 2: have been relatively effective. The Iranians have countered, although I

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Speaker 2: am not convinced that the Iranians have gotten a kill

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Speaker 2: shot in yet, which is good for us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Brandon Hango for a second, Yeah, it looks like

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Speaker 1: there was a counter strike, maybe not totally coordinator even

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Speaker 1: able to pull off. Okay, short commercial break. You're in

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Speaker 1: the war room, Fattus, Eric Prince, Joe, Allen Weikert, Fanelle

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Speaker 1: only all Stars this morning.

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Speaker 4: Here's your host, Stephen k.

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Speaker 1: Bas Okay, we're gonna get to every aspect of this.

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Speaker 1: Already looks like it may be h this may be

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Speaker 1: expanding regionally as everybody thought it would. Brandon wikerts here, Finelle, Fatus,

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Speaker 1: We get everybody there. Mike Davis is gonna come in

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Speaker 1: about the authorization. The President is going to use let

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Speaker 1: me play I'm gonna play a clip now from CBS News.

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Speaker 1: This is what you're going to hear, is the Oman.

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Speaker 1: Let's say he's the mediator. He was the note passer

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Speaker 1: that even Tristan Farsi said that the Persians of the

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Speaker 1: Rings had to get in direct discussions with President Trump.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't going to get tapped along. He actually left Geneva.

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Speaker 1: They're supposed to be in Vienna Monday for another following meeting.

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Speaker 1: He left Geneva flute in the essays think I went

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Speaker 1: to the White House. Let's hear him. Bring Brandon Wikert

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Speaker 1: for his response.

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Speaker 7: Because if the ultimate objective is to ensure forever that

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Speaker 7: Iran cannot have a nucleobomb, I think we have corracked

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Speaker 7: that problem through these negotiations by agreeing a very important

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Speaker 7: breakthrough that has never been achieved any time before. And

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Speaker 7: I think if we can capture that and build on it,

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Speaker 7: I think a deal is.

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Speaker 4: Within our reach.

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Speaker 8: What has Iran agreed to to you that they have

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Speaker 8: never done before?

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Speaker 1: Can you give us any sense?

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Speaker 7: The single most important achievement, I believe is the agreement

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Speaker 7: that Iran will never ever have a nuclear material that

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Speaker 7: will create album. And this is I think a big achievement.

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Speaker 7: This is something that is not in the old deal

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Speaker 7: that was negotiated during President Obama's time. This is something

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Speaker 7: completely new. It really makes the enrichment argument less relevant

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Speaker 7: because now we are talking about zero stockpiling, and that

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Speaker 7: is very, very important because if you cannot stockpile material

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Speaker 7: that is rich, then there is no way you can

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Speaker 7: actually create a mom.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's the amount mediator that kind of go between

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Speaker 1: that everybody realized you came with these gobe kings. You

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Speaker 1: have to if you're not going to have direct negotiations.

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Speaker 1: President Trump's going to get tired of that quickly. Brandon Weikert,

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Speaker 1: your comments and observations, you're saying the whole time, Hey, look,

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Speaker 1: that's fine if something happened. But the President clearly in

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Speaker 1: that message earlier this morning, is not simply talking about

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Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon anymore. He's talking about something much more fundamental, sir.

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Speaker 2: And I, yeah, this was something I might have said

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Speaker 2: to Kurt Mills or you, I can't remember in the

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. I was saying that it really isn't about

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Speaker 2: nuclear weapons anymore.

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Speaker 4: This is really a.

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Speaker 2: Joint US Israeli issue, and therefore the Israelis are going

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Speaker 2: to have veto power as much as the Americans are

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Speaker 2: when it comes to negotiations and for the Israelis, it's

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Speaker 2: never been just the nukes. It's really been the ballistic

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Speaker 2: missile and hypersonic weapon threat that Iran poses. And in

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Speaker 2: order to get the Iranians to agree to know enrichment

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Speaker 2: that the Omani was referring to, Trump basically had to

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Speaker 2: verbally say, Okay, I'll drop the ballistic missile reduction issue,

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Speaker 2: and that there's no way that the Israelis are then

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Speaker 2: going to come on board with that. And that's the

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Speaker 2: issue right now, because this is not just about America

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Speaker 2: and Iran, unfortunately, it's also about Israel now. So that's

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Speaker 2: why I was saying that this was all sort of

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Speaker 1: But even with the blissed missile, this one want to

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Speaker 1: get to what the President said today is this is

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Speaker 1: he wants. He's calling for the people to rise up

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Speaker 1: in the streets and take there. This is regime change,

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Speaker 1: is it not exactly? And remembers going on, and he's

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Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna put boots in the ground, but

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Speaker 1: he's implying I'm gonna do what I gotta do and

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Speaker 1: you take it from there. And in fact, the police,

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Speaker 1: remember there's a massive army besides the Revolutionary Guard. Revolutionary

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Speaker 1: Guard is obviously the layer on top that controls things.

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Speaker 1: But he's telling police, he's telling law enforcement, he's telling

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Speaker 1: the army, if you put down your weapons, or if

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Speaker 1: you turn against the regime, you'll there will be no

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Speaker 1: there will be no implications against you. If you don't

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Speaker 1: do that, you're all gonna die. I mean, he couldn't

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Speaker 1: be more blunt about that. So this was not at

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Speaker 1: least it.

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Speaker 2: Was never about the military right. It was always about

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Speaker 2: and he's and I told you this a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: and he's been pulled in by the protesters. He's you know,

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Speaker 2: he has heart and he wants to support people he

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Speaker 2: thinks are in need. And I think this is his

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Speaker 2: sort of his belief that we need to do this.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I will see if it works out.

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Speaker 2: But it is interesting to me because you mentioned shaping

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Speaker 2: operations earlier, and you mentioned in boots on the ground.

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Speaker 2: I'll just say that since last year's Twelve Day war,

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Speaker 2: I know for a fact that Israeli intelligence has infiltrated

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Speaker 2: and has stayed infiltrated in Iran. I suspect that might

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Speaker 2: be why we're having these very effective target shits. In Iran.

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Speaker 1: You said something that's gonna It's made our audience's head

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Speaker 1: blow up. You said, Israel has veto power. What do

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Speaker 1: you mean?

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Speaker 2: Fortunately, unfortunately, this is not just an American operation. Trump

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Speaker 2: is partnered, you know, for better or worse. Trump is

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Speaker 2: partnered with Netan Yahoo, and he is clearly doing this

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Speaker 2: in part because the Israelis want this done. Uh and uh, I,

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Speaker 2: you know what, we don't want to get too political

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Speaker 2: here and I'm not going to dive into.

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Speaker 1: The that that cesspool.

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Speaker 2: But ultimately I've always said it was a mistake not

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Speaker 2: to put America first. And uh, let's just hope that

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Speaker 2: the military operation continues to be successful, because this is

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Speaker 2: not just for America that we're doing this. Clearly, you're

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Speaker 2: you're going to hang on.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get more information and intelligence from you and

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Speaker 1: how these strikes are going. I've got a short package.

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis is going to join as the whole up

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Speaker 1: on Capitol Hill. There's a firestorm right now about what

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Speaker 1: the authorization is and the present word. Play a clip

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Speaker 1: and bring in Mike d Mike Davis, let's go ahead

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Speaker 1: and play it.

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Speaker 8: I do think that there are a few tiny differences

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Speaker 8: between the way the administration dealt with Congress before the

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Speaker 8: Venezuela operation and before this Iranian operation. Before Venezuela, the

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Speaker 8: administration didn't do much outreach to the members that you

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Speaker 8: would typically see at administration do outreach too. In this instance,

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Speaker 8: my sources tell me and my colleague Julia Juster that

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Speaker 8: Secretary of State Mark or Rubio actually did do his

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Speaker 8: best to reach out to all members of the Gang

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Speaker 8: of Eight, that's the top four congressional leaders from both parties,

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Speaker 8: and then of course members of the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Speaker 8: from both parties. Rubio was able to make those calls.

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Speaker 8: He wasn't able to get in touch with all of

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Speaker 8: them because some of them were traveling, not able to

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Speaker 8: pick up the phone. But I do think that that

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Speaker 8: is one key difference. Of course, it does not explain

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Speaker 8: away the fact that if Trump is calling it a

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Speaker 8: war and warning of American casualties, he did not do

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Speaker 8: this through congressional authorization. But I think there's something the

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Speaker 8: administration is going to lean on in the coming days here,

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Speaker 8: because a US official is telling MS NOW that Rubio

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Speaker 8: during that briefing on Tuesday that he did with the

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Speaker 8: Gang of Eight before Trump stated the Union, the US

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Speaker 8: official is saying that Rubio consulted with congressional leaders during

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Speaker 8: that Speaker Mike Johnson put out a statement this morning

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Speaker 8: where he said that Rubio during that Gang of Eight

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Speaker 8: briefing on Tuesday, said that strikes might be needed or

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Speaker 8: imminent to protect American assets in the region. I think

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Speaker 8: all of that is going to suddenly become very important.

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Speaker 8: It was definitely important before, but now in light of

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Speaker 8: who's authorizing what and on what legal grounds the administration

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Speaker 8: is acting, It's going to be key because coming out

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Speaker 8: of that briefing, Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Hakim Jeffries

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Speaker 8: had a lot of questions and they were not supportive

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Speaker 8: of what the administration was telling them. And certainly that's

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Speaker 8: going to be important as the administration might maybe try

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Speaker 8: to argue what we consulted with members of Congress. Certainly

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Speaker 8: members of Congress have not voted on any of this,

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Speaker 8: and that's key. But I think we're watching these fault

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Speaker 8: lines begin to emerge as we start questioning what happened here,

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Speaker 8: under what authorization, and importantly what might come next.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Mike, you've been on the leaders in this in

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Speaker 1: this thinking of the of the Article two powers of

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Speaker 1: the President, particularly his Article two powers. As commander in chief.

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Speaker 1: You one of one of the biggest advocates of using

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Speaker 1: the Aliens Sedition Act from what's seventeen ninety eight about

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Speaker 1: this situation with Venezuela and Trinity Rogert and the invasion

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Speaker 1: of our country. You also were around during the Bush years.

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Speaker 1: This just technically walk me through. We still have this

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Speaker 1: what military authorization use that's from two thousand and one,

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Speaker 1: I think is what the kind of the legal documentation

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Speaker 1: that has been used to do various military operations. So

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Speaker 1: just give us the range of what's out there your

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Speaker 1: interpretation now of his Article two powers. They've already had

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Speaker 1: a gang of a briefing once again the administration is

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Speaker 1: saying that Ruby has got the lead on this. Where

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Speaker 1: do we stand with actually the technical technically how the

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Speaker 1: commander in chief can do this, sir?

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Speaker 9: Under Article one of the Constitution, Congress has the power

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Speaker 9: to declare war, and there's a difference between declaring war

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Speaker 9: and making war. Under Article two, the President of the

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Speaker 9: United States is the commander in chief. And going all

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Speaker 9: the way back to the Federalist papers, our founders all

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Speaker 9: agreed that the president has the inherent power to repel

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Speaker 9: an invasion or an imminent attack on the United States.

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Speaker 9: We have not had a declaration of war since World

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Speaker 9: War Two, and in nineteen seventy.

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Speaker 4: Three, Congress passed.

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Speaker 9: Over President Nixon's veto. They overrode the veto and they

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Speaker 9: passed the War Powers Act of nineteen seventy three that's

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Speaker 9: been on the book for over fifty years. The problem

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Speaker 9: for that statute is is no president, Democrat or Republican

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Speaker 9: has seeded its constitutionality. Every president has said the War

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Speaker 9: Powers Act of nineteen seventy three is not constitutional, and

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Speaker 9: nineteen seventy three. Any court that has addressed this issue

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Speaker 9: when people have sued the president to try to stop,

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Speaker 9: for example, President Obama's attack on Libya, the courts have

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Speaker 9: said that these are political questions that the courts will

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Speaker 9: for the Congress and for the president to fight it

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Speaker 9: out to figure out who has the power and who

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Speaker 9: does not under the War Powers Act.

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Speaker 1: One seconds don't I don't say most conservatives, but most

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Speaker 1: texturalists and originalists don't they believe the War Powers Act

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Speaker 1: itself may be unconstitutional?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, every and not only do texturalists and originalists think

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Speaker 9: it's unconstitutional. Every president since nineteen seventy three when it's enacted,

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Speaker 9: Democrat and republic Republican has said the War Powers Act

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Speaker 9: of nineteen seventy three is unconstitutional. One of the big

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Speaker 9: problems with it is is it provides a legislative veto,

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Speaker 9: which is unconstitutional according to the Supreme Courts. I think

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Speaker 9: it was Chaka Versus decision in like nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 9: You can't have legislative vetos by Congress. How the War

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Speaker 9: Powers Act is supposed to work if any president ever

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Speaker 9: has done Democrat or Republican, is that the President provides

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Speaker 9: notice to the Speaker of the House and the President

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Speaker 9: protemp of the Senate within forty eight hours of the

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Speaker 9: of the actions taken against a foreign country, and then

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Speaker 9: there's a sixty day time periods where troops must must

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Speaker 9: be withdrawn unless Congress authorizes the military action. And that's

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Speaker 9: that's the problem with the War Powers Act. That's what

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Speaker 9: makes it unconstitutional. You can get an extra thirty days

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Speaker 9: on top of that ninety days to draw down the troops.

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Speaker 4: But if Congress does.

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Speaker 9: Not authorize the action within that within that sixty day

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Speaker 9: time period, the president has to pull out all the

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Speaker 9: troops within ninety days.

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Speaker 4: No, this has ever followed that.

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Speaker 1: This is after So after nine to eleven, we went

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Speaker 1: to this concept of military use authorization, right, and we

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Speaker 1: and that was agreed to are put forward in two

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Speaker 1: thousand and late two thousand and one, I believe, two

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Speaker 1: for essentially twenty five years. Correct.

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Speaker 9: Yes, and not only do we have the use of

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Speaker 9: the use of force in two thousand and one after

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Speaker 9: nine to eleven, that gives the president brought power to

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Speaker 9: go after terrorism, including some would argue I think President

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Speaker 9: Trump would argue, and many others would argue that that

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Speaker 9: applies to Iran. There's the two thousand and two military

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Speaker 9: authorization against Iraq and its proxies, and presidents have used

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Speaker 9: that as well. I mean, here's the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Hey, one second, before you get to the bottom line,

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Speaker 1: we'll take a short commercial break. Mike Davis is talking

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Speaker 1: about is already on Capitol Hill. There's rumblings, as we say,

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Speaker 1: there's rumblings upon Capitol Hill. Mike Davis is going to

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Speaker 1: explain it all does particularly declaring war versus making war,

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Speaker 1: Sam Fatist, Joe Allen. We've got a cast of characters

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Speaker 1: here today to break it all down for you and

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Speaker 1: make it make sense. Short break, here's your host, Stephen K. Bath. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we talked about geopolitical risk. Now me that maybe the

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis explained to us, you made a comment. There's

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Speaker 1: difference between declaring war and making war. That's one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons for the military use authorization. Explain to people

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Speaker 1: what that is, how it came about, and how it

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Speaker 1: looks like it appears that that's what President Trump is

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Speaker 1: going to use as his authorization to go do these strikes,

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Speaker 1: particularly since he's had the Secretary of State and his

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Speaker 1: National security virus. Because remember Ruby as the first guy

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Speaker 1: since Kissinger doing both to go up to Capitol Hill

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Speaker 1: and brief the Gang of eight. That's not a random

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Speaker 1: that's not a random thing that happens, sir.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, there's the difference under the Constitution between declaring war,

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Speaker 9: which that power belongs to Congress under Article one, versus

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Speaker 9: making war, which belongs to the Commander in chief. Under

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Speaker 9: Article two, there are serious legal ramifications if Congress declares

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Speaker 9: war that affects our civil liberties as Americans. The president

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Speaker 9: has more authority over American citizens to fight a war

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Speaker 9: than he does when there's not a declaration of war.

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Speaker 9: So I think people should be careful these libertarians who

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Speaker 9: are urging Congress to urging the President to seek a

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Speaker 9: declaration of war. There are seriously implications for civil liberties

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Speaker 9: if that happens. But regardless, our founders understood that there's

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Speaker 9: a difference between the two under the if you go

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Speaker 9: back and look at the Federalist papers, the president, as

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Speaker 9: the commander in chief under Article two, has the inherent

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Speaker 9: power to repel an invasion. He has the inherent power

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Speaker 9: to stop an imminent attack. And so if Iran, for example,

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Speaker 9: we saw the Supreme Leader of Iran put out a

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Speaker 9: video saying that he was going to sink American ships, well,

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Speaker 9: the president has the inherent power and duty actually as

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Speaker 9: the commander in chief to make sure that the Supreme

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Speaker 9: Leader of Iran does not sink American ships, regardless of

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Speaker 9: whether there is a declaration of war. And if you

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Speaker 9: go back to two thousand and one, after nine to

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Speaker 9: eleven Congress, Congress passed an Authorization for the Use of

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Speaker 9: Armed Forces, the AU excuse me AUAF, and it was

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Speaker 9: back in two thousand and I'll just read it to you,

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Speaker 9: and it's very broad. It talks about this that the

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Speaker 9: President is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force

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Speaker 9: against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed,

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Speaker 9: or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September eleventh,

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Speaker 9: two thousand and one, or Harvard, such organizations or persons

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Speaker 9: in order to prevent any future acts of international te

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Speaker 9: terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations, or persons.

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Speaker 4: And Congress specifically.

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Speaker 9: Noted in this au MF that this is consistent with

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Speaker 9: giving an authorization under the War Powers Resolution. So the

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Speaker 9: President has very broad power to go after international terrorism,

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Speaker 9: particularly these Islamists like the Islamist who run Iran, who

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Speaker 9: have been organizing and carrying out terrorist strikes against the

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Speaker 9: United States for the last forty seven years.

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Speaker 1: Is the issue. President Trump went through the history. I

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Speaker 1: was over there this time in nineteen eighty I was

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Speaker 1: in the North Arabian Sea on a combatant as a

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Speaker 1: planeguardship for air defense for the carry battlegroups on Gonzo

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Speaker 1: and Camel Station in the work up to what was

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Speaker 1: a failed Attackkkins in April and April of not attack

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Speaker 1: but a rescue mission that didn't work. We've been around

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Speaker 1: there and President went through that. He went through the

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Speaker 1: marine barracks, he went through the cole he went through

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Speaker 1: is there. Do you think they get caught up and like,

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Speaker 1: what's the justification over the last week, what's the justification?

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Speaker 1: You know, what is it? Are they going to get

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Speaker 1: are they going to get pressed on that hard? Sir well?

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Speaker 9: I mean we have again, we have a video from

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Speaker 9: the Supreme Leader of Iran very recently where he said

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Speaker 9: he's gonna share, He's gonna he's gonna sink American chips.

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Speaker 9: I think that video right there is all the justification

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Speaker 9: that the President needs to flatten the Supreme leaders home

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Speaker 9: and take them out.

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Speaker 1: You know, Mike, people don't remember that we were attacked

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Speaker 1: by Japan and then we declared war. We did not

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Speaker 1: declare war that day on Nazi Germany. Hitler declared war

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Speaker 1: on US. I think three days later because he had

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Speaker 1: a secret packed with the Japanese. Also correct me if

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Speaker 1: I'm wrong. President Lincoln never really had a declaration of

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Speaker 1: war against the Confederacy, didn't consider the Confederacy as a

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Speaker 1: separate nation. He had a proclamation early on around Fort

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Speaker 1: Sumter about federal property, etc. But he ran it. Eventually.

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Speaker 1: Congress set up a committee to oversee things, or they

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Speaker 1: thought to oversee things. But President Lincoln and you talked

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Speaker 1: about several liberties. President Lincoln did not go for a

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Speaker 1: declaration of war. In fact, some people said he actually

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Speaker 1: acted as a warlord, particularly on people's First Amendment rights

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Speaker 1: during the Civil War. Am I correcting that?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 9: And I would just remind people that Iran has declared

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Speaker 9: war on the United States for the last forty seven years,

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Speaker 9: and they've killed thousands of our people around the world

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Speaker 9: for the last forty seven years. They've gotven after American

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Speaker 9: military members, They've gone after our diplomats, they've gone after

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Speaker 9: our citizens. They've funded these terrorist attacks for forty seven years.

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Speaker 9: And when the Supreme leader is threatening to sink American ships,

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Speaker 9: he learned the hard way that he's messing with the

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Speaker 9: wrong president. President Trump leveled his house.

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis, where do people go to get you? Particularly

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Speaker 1: over the next couple of days on social media.

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Speaker 9: Sir, Article threeprojects dot org article number three. Project dot org.

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Speaker 9: You can donate, follow us on social media and action

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Speaker 9: Action Action, and thank.

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Speaker 1: You Steve thirty seconds. When do you think President Trump

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Speaker 1: they'll get into this whole thing on Capitol Hill today, tomorrow, Monday.

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Speaker 9: Us A. That's a good question. I don't think he

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Speaker 9: needs to. If he wants to, he can't better under

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Speaker 9: the under his Article two powers Commander in Chief under

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Speaker 9: this two thousand and one Congressional Resolution against International Terrorism.

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Speaker 4: He doesn't need to do anything. He's done when he

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Speaker 4: needs to do.

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Speaker 1: Mike Davis, thank you so much for taking time away

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Speaker 1: on your Saturday to join us declaring war versus making

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Speaker 1: war next to the world