Welcome to the Oath in the Office podcast, coming to you live from America, where the entire world now knows our president has had at least three dementia tests that he can remember.

I'm John Fuglesang, joined as always by the star of

The Oath in the Office podcast, a professor and author of the book, The Oath in the Office,

a guide to the Constitution for future presidents, Corey Brett Schneider. Cori, sorry, it's a slow news

week. Welcome back. Yeah. Wow. I mean, you know, when we started this show, I was pretty confident that every week we would have some constitutional crisis to talk about. But, you know, it could have been the odds were against it, but it could have been that. You know, humble, also constitutional challenges. They're not all crises, right? Some of them are just constitutional challenges that more competent generations could deal with.

I mean, I don't even know where to begin. Friday night, after I got off the air on Sirius XM, Donald Trump finally illegally invaded Venezuela while we were asleep, which I thought was rude professor.

If you're going to start a war, have the decency to do it during normal business hours, like a proper sociopath.

Monday, this week in New York, Maduro pled not guilty to charges of narco-terrorism conspiracy and other alleged crimes on his first day in U.S. federal court.

Turns out the indictment against him and his wife is a little flimsy rests very heavily on a meeting his wife

had before he was ever president. But Donald Trump is treating it as a win. He began

bragging about this on his website, that he bombed Venezuela, kidnapped the president,

float him out of the country. Corey, I have no doubt this will turn out every bit as smoothly as Libya

and Iraq and Afghanistan and Haiti and Honduras. And we have to say this again, Maduro's a bad guy.

He's corrupt. He's brutal. He's violent. He's very anti-democratic. But I mean, I think the

problem is Trump didn't overthrow a dictator. He may have officially become one. The administration

insists the raid was not an act of war, but a law enforcement action to apprehend an indicted

criminal, which is what they should have said the Afghanistan war was. I mean, I think Molly Ivan said

Korea was a war. They called a police action action and war on terror was a police action.

They called a war.

But under the U.S. Constitution, let's just go to the basics.

I know we haven't legally declared war in this country since 1941.

Who has the power to initiate war and how narrow are the exceptions?

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