109 Children Rescued ~ Plus, Does The President Need Congress To Declare War?
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Jenna Lee
5 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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109 rescued; 244 people arrested in a law enforcement operation in North Texas that magnifies a bigger issue: How are online predators reaching children today?
Your question answered: Does a U.S. President need Congress to get involved an overseas conflict?
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National Constitution Center: Does the president need Congress to approve military actions in Iran?
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| 0:00.0 | 109 children rescued in an operation that would have gotten a lot of attention, if not for the other headlines that we're covering. |
| 0:07.6 | So I'm going to break down that story for you, plus answer one of your key questions from the news cycle this week. |
| 0:13.2 | What does the president need from Congress, if anything, to get more involved in a foreign conflict? |
| 0:23.6 | Let's get into it. I'm Jenna, and this is Smarter News. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi, everybody. On a Friday, I usually like to leave a little time for anything about politics segment. This is when we get to take a deep breath and maybe entertain other stories that don't have anything to do with politics because politics |
| 0:41.2 | is so involved in so many stories that we're talking about really over the last several |
| 0:45.6 | months. But considering the news cycle and how many important headlines are coming across |
| 0:50.8 | my desk, I just wanted to leave a little extra time for some housekeeping |
| 0:54.9 | before we get into the weekend. |
| 0:56.0 | I wanted to address one of your key questions from this week, which is, what does the |
| 1:00.3 | president need exactly from Congress to get involved in what appears to be in evolving foreign |
| 1:06.2 | war as we're continuing to watch the conflict between Israel and Iran? |
| 1:10.4 | And I wanted to flag this story for you, a separate story that was happening back here at home, |
| 1:14.5 | that in a typical news cycle, we get a lot of attention. |
| 1:17.4 | But considering all the news that's been happening, it just didn't rise to that level. |
| 1:22.6 | And a little background to all of this is when I saw this story that involved law enforcement rescuing more than |
| 1:28.9 | a hundred children that were apparently involved in a variety of different ways in exploitation |
| 1:36.1 | because of connections online with alleged criminals, I wanted more information. So I reached out to the |
| 1:42.5 | FBI hoping to get an interview on this topic. |
| 1:45.1 | That did not come to fruition this week, but I don't want to not flag this story for you |
| 1:50.1 | because this question about online safety and security and our children is such a big topic today. |
| 1:54.8 | I think it's something that you should know about. So let's talk a little bit about that first. |
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