Iran Attack: Can the President Start a War without Congress? (with Stephen Vladeck and Ro Khanna)

It's Complicated

Renato Mariotti

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Renato discussed Trump's recent attack that killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani and Congressional efforts to ensure that Trump did not lead the nation into war with Iran. He was joined by Stephen Vladeck, A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law and Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA), who recently introduced the No War With Iran Act in the House.

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0:00.0	M.S.W. Media.
0:03.0	Is the
0:05.0	Is Donald Trump really?
0:07.0	Is Donald Trump really going to start a war with Iran?
0:17.0	Can he do that even if Congress says no?
0:20.0	Let's get on topic.
0:24.0	Welcome to on topic.
0:27.0	Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the
0:38.6	week's news.
0:40.0	My name's Renato Mariati.
0:41.8	I'm a former federal prosecutor, a practicing lawyer
0:45.7	and a CNN legal analyst.
0:48.3	I'm usually joined by my friend Patty Vasquez.
0:50.9	She's back on the campaign trail, at least for the next couple months. So we are going to be bringing in our first guest. We've got two guests lined up today on an important topic. The potential of a war with Iran and the extent of the
1:06.3	president's power to engage in offensive military operations without
1:11.2	congressional approval. But before I do that I just want to take a
1:15.3	minute to thank our patrons who brought this episode to you. With special
1:20.2	thanks to Michelle Doe, Eric DeWurst, Edie, James Frohmeyer, Jamie Gordon, Steve
1:26.9	Hungsberg, and an anonymous patron. You can become a patron too on our website on topic podcast.com.
1:37.0	Just click the support link at the top of the page.
1:40.0	So let's bring in our first guest.
1:43.0	Steve Laddick is the A Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas Law School.
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