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America is at war. Period? Or question mark? Well, you tell me, but to me, it seems like it's a period. Why?

The president keeps using the word war. Oh, yeah, but he just, hey, this is not a time for excuses.

The president keeps calling this a war. Israel calls it a war. Iran calls it a war. Congress doesn't, but let's be honest, they've given up their

authority. I have an analysis of what's going on right now that is very well sourced,

not so much about how we got here, but what we know about where this is going and whether

anybody is really thinking about that. The scariest thing I have to tell you right now is that's just becoming a developing

consideration for this administration.

The president threw out four weeks.

They don't even know why.

They don't even know what to do in those four weeks.

They don't even know what the objective is.

However, that is a legitimate point of criticism and concern. What is not is this is illegal,

Trump should be impeached, this should have never happened. He's not going to be impeached.

And if he were impeached, he would never be removed. So, wasting the energy on

that point of opposition that this was wrong to do is the least helpful thing. The most helpful

thing is to say, now what? What's the plan? What's the exit? Because you know he can't argue convincingly that, well, there was an

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