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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's seven six five persond Talk Station. Are very happy
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  Speaker 1: Friday Eve to you and Brian Thomas here hosting the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five Krisy Morning. Sure welcoming back and always pleased
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  Speaker 1: to have him being an opportunity of being in a
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  Speaker 1: position to offer him to you and tell us what's
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  Speaker 1: going on. Congressman Warren Davidson, it's really wonderful having you
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  Speaker 1: on the program this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Sir Brian. It's always an honor and nice to talk
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  Speaker 2: with you as always.
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  Speaker 1: Let me start by thanking you for your service to
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  Speaker 1: our country and you continued services one of the more
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  Speaker 1: well sane individuals in electric capacity. You're going to be
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  Speaker 1: voting today, I know, you know the Senate blocked Tim
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  Speaker 1: Kaine's resolution to limit the operation Epic Fury not you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was a close vote, but it was shot down.
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  Speaker 1: That resolution I think would have required congressional approval. And today,
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  Speaker 1: as I understand it, you're going to be voting on
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  Speaker 1: something that's being presented in the House this the Rocanna
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Massey resolution. Is that what's cueued up? Congressman Massys Yeah, David.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's essentially the same resolution saying you know what
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution says, which is, if you want a war,
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  Speaker 2: you get it authorized by Congress. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: quote declare war. I mean, you know, you can quote
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  Speaker 2: authorize the use of military force. That's what we did
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  Speaker 2: three days after nine to eleven. And so it's when
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  Speaker 2: it's popular they come ask. When it's not certain that
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  Speaker 2: they'll have all the votes and all the support of
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  Speaker 2: the people, they tend to just take action. And so
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  Speaker 2: like when Barack Obama went into Libya, he didn't ask.
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  Speaker 2: Republicans complained, but you know, some Democrats said, no, we're
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  Speaker 2: consistent on our vote, and they were critical of Barack
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  Speaker 2: Obama because he didn't get authorization to go to war.
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  Speaker 2: So this is as old as the Constitution. But that's
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  Speaker 2: what the words say in the Constitution. If we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be governed by.
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  Speaker 1: It, no question about it. I mean, let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: You can go all the way back to you World
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  Speaker 1: War two, the last declaration of war, and then we
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  Speaker 1: were engaged in literally wars in Korea. You had Vietnam.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, all the other military comp we've been involved
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  Speaker 1: with sort of tascit approval. I think of Vietnam and
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  Speaker 1: I've scratched my head the other day wondering how you
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  Speaker 1: get from quote unquote advisors during the what was it
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  Speaker 1: Eisenhower administration, Then you got Kennedy taking over and increase
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  Speaker 1: in the role. Next thing you know, we got troops
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  Speaker 1: in there, a gradual expansion in which there was no
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  Speaker 1: comment from Congress, and yet they continued to fund it
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  Speaker 1: through the military spending. So we get to nineteen seventy three,
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  Speaker 1: enter the War Powers Resolution, which says within sixty days
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  Speaker 1: of the president putting troops into a conflict, he's got
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  Speaker 1: to alert the Congress within forty eight hours. But the
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  Speaker 1: clock is ticking, and I need you to explain this.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm missing something, but the way I read the
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  Speaker 1: Warpower's Resolution, Congress can either declare war, do an authorization
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  Speaker 1: for use of military force, or not do anything, in
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  Speaker 1: which case, after sixty days, with the potential for a
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  Speaker 1: thirty day extension, you have to withdraw troops. Isn't it
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  Speaker 1: automatically going to happen if nothing is done by way
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  Speaker 1: of authors use a military force or actual outright declaration
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  Speaker 1: of war. Congressman Davidson, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: This is the thing. Like so one people cite that
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  Speaker 2: and like, well, the president can do whatever he wants
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  Speaker 2: with respect to war. Well, no, that's not what the
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  Speaker 2: constitution says. And then they say, well, but he can
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  Speaker 2: do whatever he wants because of the War Powers Resolution. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that would make the Royal Pressure Resolution unconstitutional. So some
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  Speaker 2: people say it is because they read it to say
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  Speaker 2: that it's not what it says. There are three clauses
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  Speaker 2: in the War Powers Resolution. One is a declaration of war.
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  Speaker 2: Two is an authorization for use military force. The third
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  Speaker 2: clause is the one that gives rise to this perception
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  Speaker 2: that the president can do whatever he wants for sixty
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  Speaker 2: days as long as he tells Congress within forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: That's true if it's to repel an imminent attack. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why they keep using the word eminent. Oh, it's
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  Speaker 2: been eminent for forty seven years. Imminent as in an
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  Speaker 2: exigent circumstance, as in, you know, you've got a foreign
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  Speaker 2: country with it, you know, navy cruising towards your country,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, we've got missiles in coming. We shot
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  Speaker 2: them down, and there we're going to counterattack because people
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  Speaker 2: attacked our country. Someone overran our embassy, so we're going
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  Speaker 2: to take action, you know, to defend our enemies, defend
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  Speaker 2: our embassy, and then go after anybody that attack them.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the kinds of things that are envisioned in
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  Speaker 2: that third case, and so none of those are the
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  Speaker 2: situation here in Iran. This is a war of choice
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  Speaker 2: and timing of our choice in terms of when we
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  Speaker 2: were going to ultimately lose our patients. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: in one of the discussions, the president felt like he
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  Speaker 2: needed to act within two weeks. Well, within two weeks
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  Speaker 2: you can certainly canven Congress and get a vote. You
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  Speaker 2: did it in three days after nine to eleven, and
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  Speaker 2: so I think you know could at the end of
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  Speaker 2: the day, the president needs to make the decision if
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  Speaker 2: ultimately he felt he needed to do that, and ultimately
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  Speaker 2: the strike that he wanted to do and felt like
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  Speaker 2: would be effective work, It wouldn't necessarily make it constitutional.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not like super mad that the Iatola is killed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty happy he's the dead guy. These are pretty
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  Speaker 2: evil people even right now as we speak. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: our soldiers are out smoking people that you can rest easy.
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  Speaker 2: These are bad people that you're smoking. Yes, but it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make it constitutional. So Congress should vote just like
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  Speaker 2: they should have voted for the whole Korean War. But
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  Speaker 2: instead you have this passive aggressive behavior where you don't
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  Speaker 2: really want to take responsibility for the war. You're sending
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  Speaker 2: young men and women into combat, but you won't even vote.
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  Speaker 2: But then you passively just cut the checks. And that's
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  Speaker 2: defined Congress for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: It has, and that's actually become an argument in favor
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  Speaker 1: of allowing this to continue. Look, we've been doing this
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  Speaker 1: for sixty years, you know, since World War Two. We
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  Speaker 1: have given taskit er proval for the trump to go
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  Speaker 1: ahead or for the president to go ahead and engage
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  Speaker 1: in these military operations. Since this is status quo, it's
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  Speaker 1: like a legal waiver or a stoppel argument. Nana, No,
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  Speaker 1: you can't raise that now. You have been, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just approving the reality of this for so long. For
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  Speaker 1: it's that that you're foreclosed from making that argument anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It's a sad state of affairs when it has gone
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  Speaker 1: on this long, ignoring the Constitution. But that does set
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  Speaker 1: a stage. It does suggest that presidents can do this.
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have allowed it, as you point out with Barack
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  Speaker 1: Obama in Syria.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that that's basically what the courts said
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  Speaker 2: when Republicans with support of some Democrats, challenged Barack Obama
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eleven, and frankly, Speaker Banner was one of
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  Speaker 2: the people leading that fight at the time, so saying, look,
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  Speaker 2: if you don't really have the authority to do it,
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  Speaker 2: And of course, just as now, there are Republicans across
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  Speaker 2: the spectrum. You know, back then, John McCain was still alive,
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  Speaker 2: so he was the biggest voice for not only should
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  Speaker 2: we be doing this war, we should have done it earlier,
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  Speaker 2: and we should do it more, you know, more bigly.
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  Speaker 2: And then when Graham's been a consistent voice, there's never
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  Speaker 2: been a war he h didn't like, so he was
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  Speaker 2: for the war. He also had, you know, across the
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  Speaker 2: spectrum people saying, you know, fine, war, but you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to come to Congress. And then others people saying, no,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't even really our war. What are we doing
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  Speaker 2: in o Libya? But that's why you're supposed to have
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  Speaker 2: the debate and vote. And I think that's the thing. Look,
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  Speaker 2: as a you know, when I was on active duty
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  Speaker 2: in the eighties and nineties, in the nineties, we were
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  Speaker 2: going to war in Kosovo, and I remember a time
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  Speaker 2: when I was in the hundred and first and we
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  Speaker 2: were supposed to get a unit ready to go deploy
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  Speaker 2: to Kosovo was a different battalion, and Congress voted on
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  Speaker 2: it to thirteen to two thirteen. They wouldn't even resolve
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  Speaker 2: the to vote, they wouldn't fully authorize it. So clearly
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  Speaker 2: half of Congress didn't think we should go to Kosovo. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: they win and like, good grief, you guys can't even
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  Speaker 2: resolve this, and you're you know, we get to go
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  Speaker 2: to Kosovo. And I thought it was a fine enough mission,
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  Speaker 2: but as just disappointing that Congress couldn't even resolve it.
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  Speaker 2: And so that was one of the things Wesley Clark,
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  Speaker 2: who was a general at the time, raised when he
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  Speaker 2: ran against al Gore on the Democrat side, saying, you
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  Speaker 2: know what a bad leader al Gore was, And of
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  Speaker 2: course al Gore won the primary anyway, and it didn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have wanted any of the Democrats, and I
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  Speaker 2: barely liked George W. Bush. But there's a way better
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  Speaker 2: choice than al Gore. Long history, right, so that as
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  Speaker 2: old as.
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  Speaker 1: The country, as old as the country, well probably be
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  Speaker 1: in Congressman Davidson back when I get his specifics on
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  Speaker 1: what exactly are we voting on today? Is it an
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  Speaker 1: authorization for use of limit of seven nineteen fIF about
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  Speaker 1: kracity talks stations right times with Congressman Warren Davidson, is
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  Speaker 1: going to be voting today? Yesterday's bill shot down by
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  Speaker 1: the Senate would have said, yeah, no military force unless
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  Speaker 1: Congress acts. Congress action which made you know happen today
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  Speaker 1: or was supposed to happen today, would be vote for war,
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  Speaker 1: vote for an authorization to use of military force, or
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  Speaker 1: the resolution fails. Does the rest listen yourself specifically say
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  Speaker 1: pull the troops out? He don't have the authority? Does
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  Speaker 1: it say does it talk about a scope of an
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  Speaker 1: authorization you use some military force, like you can engage
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  Speaker 1: in these activities, but you can't commit American troops on
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  Speaker 1: the ground. What is the vote about today, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the standard war Powers resolution, just as this one
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  Speaker 2: is here, says, you know, it wasn't authorized in advance,
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  Speaker 2: or it wasn't authorized and consistently with the War Powers Act,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore the president's required to remove troops from the
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  Speaker 2: situation or get approval, and so that that vote normally
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  Speaker 2: the language says thirty days in the War Powers resolution,
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  Speaker 2: So I think the language and this could have been
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  Speaker 2: more precise that you have an orderly exit, not just like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we've got to leave him tomorrow. But yeah, obviously it
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  Speaker 2: would take a little while to get everybody out of
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  Speaker 2: the harms way and combat. And they're still working to
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  Speaker 2: safely get Americans out, and that's a another thing, is like,
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  Speaker 2: if you've got a war a choice, you could certainly
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  Speaker 2: have thought out how to evacuate Americans. And Ambassador Huckabee
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  Speaker 2: in Israel gave the announcement on Friday for Americans to leave.
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  Speaker 2: And when you make an announcement on Friday and say
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  Speaker 2: you should leave Israel Friday, it's not always easy to
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  Speaker 2: catch the flight Friday afternoon out as an example. So
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  Speaker 2: there are people that are concerned about that. The State
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  Speaker 2: Department is working on that, and we'll have information up
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  Speaker 2: today for people that they put out this week to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: here's how you can help people connect with the State
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  Speaker 2: Department to get out. We still have a number of
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  Speaker 2: Americans in the region and the State Department has been
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  Speaker 2: working to get everybody out. But those are the kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things that happened. If this passed, you would be
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  Speaker 2: working on a more early disengagement, or presumably the administration
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  Speaker 2: would just bring a resolution saying here's what we want
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  Speaker 2: to do. And look, this administration, well, they didn't come
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  Speaker 2: to Congress. They have laid out three specific goals that
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  Speaker 2: they want to do, which is, you know, eliminate Iron's
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  Speaker 2: nuclear capability by that was the that's long standing, but
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  Speaker 2: now they want to take out their missile capability and
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  Speaker 2: that's going really well. They want to eliminate their navy
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  Speaker 2: because they keep using their navy to block the Straits
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  Speaker 2: of Moore moves well, right, going pretty well. And then
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  Speaker 2: they want to do they want to eliminate the Iranian
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  Speaker 2: support for proxy groups. So I don't think they're sending
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  Speaker 2: any wire transfers right now, pelts of cash floating over
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  Speaker 2: to Hamas and Hesbalah. They really are probably working to
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  Speaker 2: organize their leadership, and that's also problematic for them right now.
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  Speaker 2: So what they're not taking off the table is anything
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  Speaker 2: which you know, in the midst of this and it
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  Speaker 2: really doesn't necessarily make sense diplomatically or in it to
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  Speaker 2: limit that way. But they haven't laid out objectives that
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  Speaker 2: would require boots on the ground. So when pressed, they
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  Speaker 2: haven't ruled it out. They also haven't been saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: we plan to introduce troops on the ground. The challenge
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  Speaker 2: is for a lot of people in warhocks, like Lindsay Graham,
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  Speaker 2: they say, look, the only way to guarantee that this
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  Speaker 2: really stays done is you eliminate the leadership that would
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  Speaker 2: do them in the first place. And so we need
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  Speaker 2: a regime change war in you know, so not just
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  Speaker 2: you know, the top leadership out well, the same hardliners
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  Speaker 2: you you know, inherently and this is the way it
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  Speaker 2: always works. You decapitate the leadership, and the hardliners that
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  Speaker 2: were dependent upon that leader for power are the people
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  Speaker 2: left in power, and they're they're even more validated as
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  Speaker 2: to the threat of you know, whatever enemy took them out,
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  Speaker 2: because the hardliners wanted to go even harder. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you could think if somebody attacked us, Lindsey Graham would
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  Speaker 2: inherently be validated because he's always wanted to go to
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  Speaker 2: war more right, And so those are the people with
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  Speaker 2: the weapons in a dictatorship like Iran, And so it
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  Speaker 2: makes it really hard for to be this organic uprising.
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  Speaker 2: And so people think Oh, well, we took out the leadership.
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  Speaker 2: There's just going to magically be the shaw is going
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  Speaker 2: to be greeted in and the celebrated and you know,
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  Speaker 2: festivities in the streets for the new government, and everyone's
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  Speaker 2: going to run and hide. That never works. That didn't
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  Speaker 2: even work in Kosovo and Serbia, correct. And in Iran
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  Speaker 2: they just killed, you know, thirty to forty thousand of
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  Speaker 2: their people, So the local population's a little reluctant to
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  Speaker 2: go out and overthrow the current government.
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  Speaker 1: That is most certainly correct. And I guess I understand
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  Speaker 1: the CIA has been arming the Kurdish opposition groups in
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  Speaker 1: Iran that may surge in and perhaps ultimately be the vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: the proxy vehicle for boots on the ground. We'll wait
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  Speaker 1: and see how that happens. But real quick before we
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  Speaker 1: have to part company, because I know you're on a schedule.
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  Speaker 1: NATO batteries in Turkey shot down a ballistic missile that
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  Speaker 1: was on its way to Turkey, which is a NATO
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  Speaker 1: country with whom we have a defense agreement. What do
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  Speaker 1: you make of that? Are they trying to drag the
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  Speaker 1: entire European Union or the NATO countries into war? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that was inadvertent going after one of our
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  Speaker 1: military bases, because that is a development that sounds a
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  Speaker 1: lot like World War three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's interesting about Turkey because you know,
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  Speaker 2: almost immediately once you started the war in Iran, there
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  Speaker 2: are people in Israel who say, well, the next biggest
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  Speaker 2: threat to Israel is Turkey.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead and try to figure that one out.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So you know, there's always people that want to
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  Speaker 2: get a bigger war, more wars and more places. And
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  Speaker 2: I say, you know, we don't have to accept all
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  Speaker 2: the invitations to war, and I say, hopefully we can
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  Speaker 2: prevent a broader expansion of it. You look at like
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  Speaker 2: how World War one started, I mean the assassinated artually Ferdinand,
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  Speaker 2: and now you've got World War one. So I think
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  Speaker 2: that's why you should always be cautious about the linkages here.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot at play. I mean, Venezuela and Iran
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  Speaker 2: are the core suppliers for China's oil outside of Russia,
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  Speaker 2: and so there's a whole extra layer here between the
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  Speaker 2: United States in China in terms of positioning for global.
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  Speaker 1: Power, which may of course be the ultimate reason for
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  Speaker 1: all this. All right, for we part company, let's get
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  Speaker 1: a definitive. I think last week you made a definitive
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  Speaker 1: or e yes or no. Today on the vote, Oh yeah, yes,
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  Speaker 1: on the wo solution.
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  Speaker 2: I made a speech on the floor of the House yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, I'm encouraging everyone to vote yes. As
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  Speaker 2: I'm walking off the floor, a reporter goes, so, does
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  Speaker 2: that mean you're going to vote yes? Yes, that speech
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  Speaker 2: where I spoke for three minutes and explained why I
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  Speaker 2: was going to be voting yes, I will be voting yes.
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  Speaker 2: And look, you know we've got mixed reviews on that,
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  Speaker 2: not surprising its tough position, and look, I still love
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  Speaker 2: President Trump. I think we have an incredibly talented leadership
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  Speaker 2: team at State and Department of War and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: But the Constitution requires a vote, and even the Warpowers
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  Speaker 2: Resolution is an act of law, and even the appropriations
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  Speaker 2: that we send to the military say that none of
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  Speaker 2: these funds may be used in violation of the War
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  Speaker 2: Powers Act. So it is intended to be reinforced in
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  Speaker 2: every way, and that appropriations language was added to all
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  Speaker 2: defense appropriations after Obama's Libya things. So what has changed, Well,
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  Speaker 2: things like that have changed, and so there's been an
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  Speaker 2: effort by Congress to hold on to its constitutional authority
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  Speaker 2: here until it counts, and then you know, everybody can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to surrender it and go into passive mode and
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  Speaker 2: just pretend, oh, I don't know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: go on record, and then they'll passively cut the checks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, or they'll end up saying, yes, we didn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything and it all worked out really well, or just
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  Speaker 1: lay a heavy lot of criticism on Donald Trump and
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  Speaker 1: anybody who supported it and tried to get some political
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  Speaker 1: advantage based on that. YEH seen this before, wash Rinse
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  Speaker 1: repeat Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate your candor, I appreciate your
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  Speaker 1: where you are on the vote, and I'm just got
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  Speaker 1: all I can say is got my popcorn out and
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  Speaker 1: hope this thing resolves itself in our favor. And God
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  Speaker 1: bless the American military, and you got to give them
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  Speaker 1: a huge, huge praise for the success they're having, whether
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  Speaker 1: or not it was well based upon something that was
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  Speaker 1: done legally.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you,