Congress Tries to Prevent Trump From Quitting NATO
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 19 December 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:37.0 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. Congress passes a provision to prevent the president from leaving the NATO alliance? Is this aimed at a |
| 0:46.0 | former and possibly future President Trump? And is this the kind of provision that can work? |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:55.2 | We are joined today by my colleagues, editorial board member Kate Batchelder |
| 1:00.1 | Odell and columnist Kim Strassal. The National Defense Authorization Act or the NDA is about a thousand |
| 1:08.6 | pages this year and some new spotlight being shined on a small provision and at limitation on |
| 1:15.5 | withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Here's what it says. The |
| 1:21.2 | president shall not suspend, terminate, denounce, or withdraw the United States |
| 1:26.3 | from the North Atlantic Treaty done at Washington, D.C. April 4, 1949, except by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, provided that two-thirds of |
| 1:36.8 | the Senators present concur or pursuant to an act of Congress. |
| 1:41.7 | This is a provision that was not very much noticed when it got into this |
| 1:46.1 | bill. But let's start with a clip of Virginia Senator Tim Kane arguing that it was needed back in July. |
| 1:53.4 | What this amendment would do would make plain |
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