While the war powers resolution to limit further action in Venezuela advanced in the Senate today,

its future in the House is less certain.

For a Republican perspective, I spoke earlier to Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke.

Congressman Zinke, welcome back to the News Hour.

Thank you for joining us.

My pleasure.

A lot of activity on Capitol Hill today.

I want to ask you first not about what happened in the House, but what we saw in the Senate,

where some of your Republican colleagues broke ranks, joined the Democrats, and voted to advance

the war powers resolution that would limit the President's ability to take further military

action in Venezuela without congressional approval.

How do you look at that? Was that the right move and would you support a similar move in the House?

Well, there's always been a tension between Article 1, Congress and Article 2, the President.

In this case, I'll stand with the Constitution, Article 1, the President has that authority. And in Venezuela, it's important to realize that if you look at Panama, which was justified under three conditions.

One is that Venezuela, in this case, Mnuro was a threat to the United States because he was a drug trafficker,

52 pages of indictment would say it was. And secondly, he wasn't a legitimate

leader. I mean, the election was fraudulent. In Panama, he also had Panama Canal. But going

forward, the president had the authority to go ahead and remove Maduro. So I don't think there's

any question of legality or constitution. I think the big question in Venezuela is what next?

You know, when you exercise the Monroe Doctrine, it's a two-way street, it comes with the responsibility to make sure that now, since Mendoro has been removed,

that Venezuela, the conditions are set where Venezuela can prosper.

I want to ask you more about what's next in Venezuela, but just to follow up in terms of congressional

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