Welcome back to Pazdey of the World. This is Tommy V2R. Thank you guys for tuning in.

My guest today is Senator Tim Cain, the United States Senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia,

not State of Virginia. Don't ever say that again. We had a conversation today about something

that is so unbelievably important but is never discussed, which is the legal framework

for all the wars we're in. The authorization for the use of military force has passed in

2001. It has not been updated since and yet we have not just continued to be a war in

Afghanistan but that has expanded to different continents to different terrorist groups and we have

not updated that authorization because the politics are hard. So Senator Cain talks a lot about

his bipartisan bill to reintroduce a new authorization for the use of military force and why he thinks

it's so important. He's a brilliant guy. This is clearly something he's passionate about and I

really enjoy the conversation. I think you will too. Senator Cain, thank you so much for agreeing

to do this interview and for being one of the few members of Congress who seems to really care

about the legal basis for the many wars we're fighting. You would think that declaring war,

providing oversight of those wars would be one of the most important things an elected official does

but it sometimes it seems like the politics of these issues scare people away for the responsibility

and we appreciate your courage and I would note that you pushed President Obama on this issue

in the same way that you pushed the Trump administration. So this isn't partisan, this is substance.

So thank you. You've got time. It's for some set of reasons it's been a long time passion of mine

and even though I've been frustrated by the lack of progress thus far, I'm very focused on the issue

and we've had some recent progress that I'm looking forward to talking to you about. Yes, me too.

Okay. So I am not a lawyer. So if I mess anything up, please correct me but I want to try to

lay this out a little bit of a 101 on how we're supposed to provide a legal basis for wars in

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