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Trump's war powers rebuked by GOP-led House & Senate · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: A major rebuke of the president, a symbolic rebuke, but
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  Speaker 1: one showing the concern within the Democratic ranks and among
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  Speaker 1: some Republicans over the way the president has been waging
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  Speaker 1: this war with Iran. The Senate joining the House and
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  Speaker 1: passing a resolution to limit the president's war powers with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: If you were to choose to escalate things with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: he would be, under this led resolution would have to
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  Speaker 1: come back to Congress to get explicit approval to do
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  Speaker 1: just that. And that is, of course, exactly the opposite
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  Speaker 1: of the way the president has waged this war, has
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  Speaker 1: not gotten to approved from Congress, has moved ahead with it.
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  Speaker 1: But for the first time, we were seeing the Senate
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  Speaker 1: and the House speak with one voice on this issue
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  Speaker 1: just moments ago, four Republicans joining with forty six Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Those senators included Susan Collins, have made in a difficult
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  Speaker 1: reelection race Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, someone who oftentimes does
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  Speaker 1: break with the president. Senator Ram Paul a libertarian minand
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  Speaker 1: Republican one who opposed as foreign intervention for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: And there was also Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican who
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  Speaker 1: Trump pushed out of his senatecy by endorsing his primary
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  Speaker 1: challenger has come back to the Senate and voted against
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  Speaker 1: the President, broken with him on some key issues, this
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  Speaker 1: being one of that Republican leaders in the House had
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  Speaker 1: tried so hard Abbey to try to prevent this vote
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  Speaker 1: from even happening when it did pass a few weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: The Speaker of the House actually adjourned the House early
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  Speaker 1: when they went to recess to try to avoid a
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  Speaker 1: vote from even happening. They ultimately had to vote on
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  Speaker 1: this in the House. It did pass that chamber narrowly
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  Speaker 1: after a handful of Republicans joined with Democrats, and now
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  Speaker 1: we were seeing the Senate follow suit. So assign here
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  Speaker 1: a message to the President as he comes here to
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  Speaker 1: Capitol little tomorrow when so many Republicans, even the ones
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  Speaker 1: who voted against this measure, many of them concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the deal that his administration is cutting with Iran in
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  Speaker 1: question about whether sanctions, for instance, should be eased with
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  Speaker 1: that country amid all the questions about its nuclear program.
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  Speaker 1: That's going to be front end center as a president
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  Speaker 1: us as Republicans who are very concerned about the way
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  Speaker 1: he is waging this war.
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  Speaker 2: A Republican House and a Republican Senate just voted to
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  Speaker 2: basically say time to stop and come to us for approval.
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  Speaker 2: That is a pretty strong sign that the President's control,
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  Speaker 2: especially over the situation in Irans living well.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's a reflection of where a lot
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  Speaker 3: of those Republicans who did you know, join Democrats in
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  Speaker 3: this vote, where they see the popularity of this conflict.
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  Speaker 3: Now the irony is the conflict has gotten less popular
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  Speaker 3: as the President has been working to end this war.
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  Speaker 3: The memorandum of understanding landed like a lead balloon, which
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  Speaker 3: frankly baffles me. And we'll get into all that.
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  Speaker 2: I do know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually massively optimistic on this course, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that the wors it lands in the US, the more
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  Speaker 3: the Iranians will make concessions on their side. But this
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  Speaker 3: is a reflection of the political polling and because they
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  Speaker 3: have to sell it to their populace too. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you're the guy who's in charge of something that
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  Speaker 3: looks like you surrendered to the UN last you're not
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  Speaker 3: going to be in that role very long.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get how this looks like a surrender to
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  Speaker 4: the US. I think this is really bad for the
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  Speaker 4: United States because Donald Trump is in a horrible position
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  Speaker 4: right now. Right now, he's in the point where he's
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  Speaker 4: losing support from his own party. Not only do you
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  Speaker 4: have these four US, four US six.
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  Speaker 3: States, the walls might be closing in on Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, after a decade of well, I mean, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: this is a big deal. This is you don't normally
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  Speaker 4: get the president United States who has his own party
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  Speaker 4: who goes against him. It's very unpopulable. Not only do
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  Speaker 4: he have those four US centers, but you also have
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  Speaker 4: John Corny, and you have Casside already who's already come
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  Speaker 4: out opposed to him on several other issues. So you've
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  Speaker 4: got now six US senators who are openly opposed to
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump's agenda, not just on this, but on Bill
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  Speaker 4: Poulti as Director of National Intelligence. You've got the whole
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  Speaker 4: issue about FIZA that's stuck. He wants that pass, you
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  Speaker 4: can't get that through. Donald Trump is in a difficult position.
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  Speaker 4: He's almost a lame duck president. And we haven't even
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  Speaker 4: gotten to the mid test.
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  Speaker 2: Look, all of these things are layered. Right There's there's
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  Speaker 2: a group of voters somewhere in the middle who sided
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  Speaker 2: with Trump in the last election because they hated the
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  Speaker 2: way that Biden managed the economy. They now hate the
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  Speaker 2: way Trump has managed the economy. The Trump's handling inflation
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  Speaker 2: among Republicans is just sixty four percent. That's compared to
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  Speaker 2: his general approval, which is usually in the eighties and
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  Speaker 2: the nineties. Then on top of that, you have Trump
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  Speaker 2: backing off one of the big things, which is we
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  Speaker 2: don't get involved in foreign wars. He literally told them
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't start a war with Iran, and then he
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  Speaker 2: starts a war with Iran. So when you combine all
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  Speaker 2: of these things together, what's the impact.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean to one point. I mean, populous are fickle,
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  Speaker 3: like they go where the popular kind of movement is,
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  Speaker 3: and those voters who are abandoning them now were Democrats
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  Speaker 3: and abandoned them. Then they kind of sway.
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  Speaker 1: Back and forth.
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  Speaker 3: I think one of the challenges that Trump administration has
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  Speaker 3: is he came in confronting two long term threats. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: one was Iran getting a nuclear weapon. The other was
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  Speaker 3: the degradation of our industrial base. He was correcting the
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  Speaker 3: degradation of the industrial base through tariffs, but that had
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  Speaker 3: an inflationary effect. So the costs are front loaded, the
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  Speaker 3: benefits are backloaded, and same thing with Iran, the costs
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  Speaker 3: are front loaded. We saw that with the closure of
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  Speaker 3: the Straight of Horror moves, the rise of gas prices,
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  Speaker 3: like the amount of lives that may have been saved
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  Speaker 3: by going to war and preventing Irani and nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 3: potentially changing the direction of that regime. Hopefully that's the
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  Speaker 3: intent of the MoU. You know, that is something that's incalculable.
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  Speaker 3: But when people see gas prices go up a dollar,
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  Speaker 3: they feel that immediately. It's the mismatch between the short
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  Speaker 3: term costs and the long term rewards that I think
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  Speaker 3: is a political challenge but could be to our benefits
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  Speaker 3: strategically as a country.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't think that people see that there will
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  Speaker 4: be long term rewards. I mean, we had a joint,
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  Speaker 4: comprehensive plan of action under the Obama administration. Trump threw
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  Speaker 4: it away in his first term. He's negotiating a new
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  Speaker 4: deal that will actually put us in the worst position,
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  Speaker 4: giving a RAND three hundred billion dollars which they didn't
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  Speaker 4: have before, now allowing Iran to sell oil, allowing him
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  Speaker 4: to potentially control the straight of her moves and to
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  Speaker 4: control to actually charge money to travel the straight of
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  Speaker 4: her moves. All that is really negative and this and
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  Speaker 4: it's also not going to happen the same time, and
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  Speaker 4: at the same time we had we had thirteen American
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  Speaker 4: soldiers who were killed, hundreds who were injured, and the
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  Speaker 4: cost of gasoline is up, And what are we getting
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  Speaker 4: out of this? We have a president who's not focused
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  Speaker 4: on the issues of the American people are concerned about.
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  Speaker 4: They're not going to be getting out of this. They're
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  Speaker 4: signing this week, and you're not.
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  Speaker 3: Focused on jobs and health care and affordability.
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  Speaker 4: The things that he campaigned on, and he claimed he
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  Speaker 4: was going to end these wars. He didn't do this.
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  Speaker 4: And I think all this is just reverberating to the
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  Speaker 4: American people to the point where we just signed speak
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  Speaker 4: to war.
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  Speaker 5: You have to give Peter credit for a completely new
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  Speaker 5: faith theory on how to defend this terrible deal. We
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  Speaker 5: are trying to use reverse psychology under the Iranians. We
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  Speaker 5: are saying that it's so it is playing so badly
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  Speaker 5: in America that it is helping in Iran. It's reverse
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  Speaker 5: psychology on the Iran I didn't get that either.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm happy to defend. I mean the reality.
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  Speaker 2: I am also curious the reality with.
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  Speaker 3: The Iranian regime, and we talk about hardliners, there's still needs.
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  Speaker 4: They're not going to be as.
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  Speaker 3: Respond to the democratic process because they're an authoritarian regime
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  Speaker 3: and when people come out in protest they get gunned
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  Speaker 3: down on the streets by the tens of thousands. They
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  Speaker 3: still need to get consensus within a very fractious and
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  Speaker 3: fractured leadership that is trying to figure out who is
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  Speaker 3: able to speak on behalf.
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  Speaker 5: Of the reason even Republicans are speaking out against this deal,
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  Speaker 5: even people like lizry Graham. No, it's not because of
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  Speaker 5: the poll numbers. Is because they have been working on
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  Speaker 5: this issue. People like Lindsey Graham have been working on
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  Speaker 5: this issue for decades and they know a bad deal
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  Speaker 5: when they see it. This is not about reverse psychology
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  Speaker 5: on Iran. It's about the fact that the merits do
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  Speaker 5: not hold up and that after a war, after closing
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  Speaker 5: of hormones, after an economic disaster, we are ending up
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  Speaker 5: worse than we started without regime change and without anything
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  Speaker 5: for the Iranian people.
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  Speaker 4: If you think and anything.
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  Speaker 3: For the American if you think that the future is
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  Speaker 3: a straight line projection from this point in time. Sure,
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  Speaker 3: but the reality is this is not going to be
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  Speaker 3: a straight line. This is going to be something that
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  Speaker 3: goes back and forth negotiations there. Can we trust the Iranians?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 5: Can they trust I don't trust the Iranians, then I
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  Speaker 5: don't trust Trump. And I think this is and I
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  Speaker 5: think a lot of people, even the Republicans, are having
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  Speaker 5: questions about this.