Let's remember here, there hasn't been a congressional authorization for strikes into Venezuela.

Right.

There are those of us like me and the Congress who've said, okay, if you think it's important

that we go risk American lives, we put Americans in harm's way here, you come to Congress,

you have a debate in front of the American people, you ask for the authority for that.

This administration has done none of that.

And so I think there's a lot of illegal uncertainty here, and that's a dangerous place to be.

Let's get certainty.

Let's have this debate out in the open.

But what I've seen from Secretary Hegseth and whether it's his misuse of signal and classified information,

his response and his varying answers

to what kind of orders he gave around these strikes, it's just reckless stuff. He is not up to this

job.

Hi again, everyone. It's now 5 o'clock in New York. It does not take an advanced degree in pattern

recognition to see those through lines, the thread connecting each and every

one of those scandals mentioned by the congressman there, each and every cascading controversy

in this, the second presidential Trump term and administration overflowing with them.

That is Donald Trump and those who work for him believe they can do whatever they want, whenever they

want, regardless of the law, regardless of the precedent, regardless of the damage it does

to the institutions, regardless of the plummeting support from the American people.

The United States Supreme Court, in its decision granting presidential immunity gave Trump reason to believe

maybe he can do whatever he wants.

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