Trump Rejects All Oversight on Venezuela War. What's Next? (w/ Ryan Goodman)
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🗓️ 2 November 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Bill Crystal here, editor at large for the bulwark. |
| 0:02.7 | Very pleased to be joined again by Ryan Goodman, Professor of Law at NYU, co-editor of the |
| 0:07.3 | indispensable just security website, expert on work to DOD as a council of DOD for a year and |
| 0:14.8 | expert on matters of the laws of war and peace, and more broadly just the war in peace, I would say, Congress, |
| 0:22.7 | the executive branch and stuff. So, Ryan, thanks for joining me again. |
| 0:27.5 | Thanks, looking forward to the conversation. |
| 0:29.5 | And I guess we spoke just a month ago, right, to try to, and I think people found it very |
| 0:33.1 | helpful. Many told me that explaining the situation with what was happening with the fishing boats or the drug boats in the Caribbean. |
| 0:41.6 | And we've progressed quite a bit, though, just in that month, right? |
| 0:44.4 | And the War Powers Act, the 60-day window expires tomorrow. |
| 0:49.4 | But you explain the situation. |
| 0:50.6 | Where do we stand on that? |
| 0:52.3 | Sure. |
| 0:52.7 | So we are about to cross the 60-day mark of the War Powers Resolution on Monday. |
| 1:01.4 | And that means at that point, according to the statute, the president must terminate military |
| 1:08.3 | operations because he has failed to obtain an affirmative authorization |
| 1:13.3 | from Congress. |
| 1:14.7 | That's one way of thinking of it. |
| 1:16.0 | And another way of saying that same thing, but differently, is as of Monday, the military |
| 1:23.0 | operations against the drug cartels will be congressionally congressionally prohibited, uh, because the war crimes |
| 1:29.2 | resolution, war crimes act, uh, prohibits. War powers, War Powers Act. Sorry, did I, sorry. |
| 1:35.1 | More crimes. No, it's not. War crimes is not our mind, too. Right. Right. That too. We shouldn't be |
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