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🗓️ 22 June 2025
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0:00.0 | Here's the latest on Iran. First up, the war powers resolution was passed in 1973. It's also called the War Powers Act. |
0:11.0 | It is a federal law passed by Congress, and it says the president must consult with Congress before introducing armed forces into combat. |
0:28.7 | If you're going to phone in an airstrike, you have to consult Congress. |
0:34.0 | Congress was not consulted, certainly not the Democrats. |
0:37.9 | I'm going to talk about this in a second. |
0:40.7 | He must notify Congress within 48 hours before he deploys troops into hostile situations. |
0:50.0 | That's the law. |
0:50.7 | That's the War Powers Act. |
0:53.3 | And Congress can prevent an airstrike before it happens by passing a war powers resolution |
1:01.5 | forbidding the president from striking. |
1:05.7 | It almost happened when Obama was president. |
1:08.8 | He was about to bomb Syria because they were accused of using, I think it was nerve gas. I think it was Sarin. I'm not sure. And Obama was about to bomb Syria. Congress blocked it. I don't think through an official invocation of the War Powers Act, |
1:30.3 | but a threat to invoke the War Powers Act. So there's something very disingenuous going on right now |
1:37.8 | in the Democratic Party because Chuck Schumer, the Senate Minority Leader, and Hakeem Jeffries, the Senate Minority Leader, |
1:45.0 | and Hakeem Jeffries, the House Minority Leader, |
1:48.0 | are now criticizing Trump's bombing campaign over Iran, |
1:52.8 | and they're saying, we're going to invoke the War Powers Act. |
1:56.0 | We want answers. |
1:57.6 | Well, Tim Kane, the senator from Virginia, introduced a war powers resolution last |
2:05.5 | week to block Donald Trump from bombing Iran. Republican Tom Massey of Kentucky and Democrat |
2:15.2 | from California, Rokana, together introduced a war powers resolution |
2:21.1 | blocking the attacks last week. |
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