PREVIEW: Excerpt from a conversation with the Nation publisher Katrina Vanden Heuvel re the absence of congressional debate or permission to open fire on the Houthis of North Yemen. Publishing in the Nation, Representatuve RO Khanna writes, "President Bi
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
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https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-war-powers-congress-yemen/
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| 0:32.0 | Conversation with Katrina Vanenhove, the editorial director and publisher of the nation magazine. |
| 0:37.0 | She points me to a new piece in the nation written by Representative Ro Cahani of California, criticizing the Biden administration's decision |
| 0:49.2 | to launch U.S. strikes against the Huthies in Yemen without the approval of Congress. |
| 0:56.0 | Katrina emphasizes that we have not used the proper route to declare war if that's what it is. The U.S. is now alone firing at the Huthi |
| 1:07.0 | launch sites, not at the Huthi leadership, but the launch site. Is this a war? |
| 1:11.7 | Is it a police action? What is it? |
| 1:14.0 | Katrina reads a series of headlines that suggest we don't have a definition and we don't have an end date. |
| 1:21.0 | Representative Rokana, he is an extremely well-made. mandate. mentions that he will be heard from over the years. He's very careful but right now |
| 1:34.9 | he was a Bernie Sanders supporter in 20. He's not naturally in the Biden camp. Right now he's asking a question of the administration but |
| 1:46.6 | also of Congress where is your duty to declare war, to debate these matters, to open |
| 1:52.2 | fire on what used to be regarded as a mountain band of |
| 1:57.2 | rebels now in control of North Yemen, the Houthis. |
| 2:01.6 | Here's Katrina Vanenhovell of the Nation magazine asking these questions. |
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