Congressional Democrats Plan Vote on Trump's War Powers
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🗓️ 6 January 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Iran says it will no longer honor its commitment to limit its enrichment of uranium, stepping away from a key component of the landmark nuclear deal it agreed to with six nations, including the United States, in 2015.
This episode: congressional correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Ayesha Rascoe, and National Political Correspondent Mara Liasson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Cindy calling from outside the Sun Gate on the Inka Trail to |
| 0:07.1 | Machu Picchu in the Andes Mountains of Peru. This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:12.9 | 236 pm on Monday, January 6. Things might have changed by the time you hear |
| 0:18.8 | this and I will have completed my four-day hike to Machu Picchu. Okay, enjoy the show. |
| 0:26.0 | Machu Picchu is on my bucket list. I've been there. It's so worth it. Mara |
| 0:32.7 | endorsement. Yeah. Total endorsement. Hey there, it's the MPR politics podcast. I'm |
| 0:38.0 | Susan Davis. I cover Congress. I'm Aisha Roscoe. I cover the White House. I'm |
| 0:41.4 | Mara Laias and a National Political Correspondent. And the repercussions of |
| 0:45.0 | President Trump's decision to order the killing of a top Iranian general, |
| 0:48.8 | Kasim Soleimani, are starting to emerge. That happened just on Friday you guys and |
| 0:53.6 | since then Iran has announced they will no longer limit their nuclear program in |
| 0:58.1 | Iraq where Soleimani's killing took place. Parliament voted to expel American |
| 1:03.0 | forces and here in the US Congress is planning to vote to limit Trump's |
| 1:07.4 | authority for additional military action against Iran. Mara, it's getting real. |
| 1:11.6 | This is the most real thing Donald Trump has ever done, meaning the thing with |
| 1:16.6 | the most real world life and death potential consequences. Most of the other |
| 1:22.1 | things, even the crises of his own making, the trade wars, pulling troops out of |
| 1:28.0 | Syria. None of them had the potential consequences that this one does. Why do you |
| 1:32.1 | say that? Well, first of all, this is Iran, most powerful player in the Middle |
| 1:36.6 | East. He took out in Kasim Soleimani, one of the most important political |
| 1:42.2 | officials in Iran. This wasn't just like decapitating a terrorist organization |
| 1:46.2 | like taking out al-Baghdadi. So this guy was in a chain of command, getting rid of |
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