Hi, I'm Jonathan Kapart, and welcome to Cape Up.

Congressman Roakana of California represents Silicon Valley, one of the richest areas in the country.

But as candidate for president is Senator Bernie Sanders.

Kana is convinced the Democratic socialists can expand opportunity for all Americans. But before we got into all that, I asked

Kana to talk about the Iran war resolution, a vote on which took place after we spoke

last week. One of the big surprises of that vote was a yes

from conservative Congressman Matt Gates. Here at Kana preview why that happened

right now. Congressman Kana, thanks for coming on the podcast.

Jonathan, I'm a fan and I'm honored to be on.

Okay, let's talk about Iran, the president, and what the hell is happening?

Well, first of all, it's scary what's taking place.

I mean, for the president to be tweeting out about striking 52 cultural sites in Iran.

That's a violation of the 1954 Hague Convention

on Cultural Property, which by the way,

George W Bush got the Senate to ratify.

A conservative president put us in that treaty and the

president is cavalierly threatening to violate international law and his strike

on Solomoni was unconstitutional. No one questions that Solemani has blood on his

hands. No one questions that Solemani killed Americans. But you can't go and take

out a senior military leader and risk a provocation of war without coming to Congress.

There's a limited self-defense exception,

and that applies if you know the location of an attack the time of an attack you can

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