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  • SENATE IN KANSAS.

  • WE WILL FOLLOW THE STORY ON THE

  • POLITICAL FRONT.

  • ON THE IRAN STRIKE AND TESTIFIED

  • TONIGHT AND THAT SHE WILL TRY TO

  • PRESIDENT DEL MICHAEL LIMIT

  • WHERE POWER AND HE SAYS THE TWIT

  • WHERE POWER AND HE SAYS THE TWIR

  • POSTS ARE ALL THEY NEED.

  • THAT BATTLE COULD EVENTUALLY END

  • NOW.

  • >> WHEN IT COMES TO WORK, THE

  • CONSTITUTION HAS CONFLICTING

  • MESSAGES.

  • ARTICLE TWO SECTION TWO STATES

  • "THE PRESIDENT SHALL BE

  • COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY

  • AND NAVY OF THE UNITED STATES."

  • THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF HAS

  • LIMITS AND ARTICLE ONE AND

  • SECTION 8 SAYS "CONGRESS ALONE

  • HAS THE POWER TO DECLARE WAR."

  • AS TENSIONS WITH IRAN REACH A

  • BOILING POINT, THE

  • INTERPRETATIONS OF THE

  • PRESIDENT'S POWER IS UP FOR

  • DEBATE IN THE CITY THAT

  • RELATIVES THE TERM.

  • >> THE PRESIDENT HAS EVERY

  • AUTHORITY HE NEEDED AS COMMANDER

  • IN CHIEF TO DO THE RIGHT

  • DECISION BECAUSE AMERICAN LIVES

  • WERE AT STAKE.

  • >> PRESIDENT SAID I HAD 52

  • TARGETS ON MICHAEL AFTER THEM, I

  • MIGHT DO IT DISPROPORTIONALLY I

  • MIGHT GO AFTER CULTURAL SITES

  • AND THAT IS WAR.

  • IF THAT IS NOT A RESPONSE TO A

  • IMMINENT THREAT.

  • >> YESTERDAY, PRESIDENT PUT OUT

  • THIS TWEET ANNOUNCING THAT HIS

  • POTENTIAL PLAN TO STRIKE AROUND.

  • OPEN TO MIKE "SEARCH

  • LEGAL REQUIRE IS NOT REQUIRED."

  • SCOTT ANDERSON SERVED UNDER

  • PRESIDENT OBAMA AND WAS THE

  • ADVISOR IN BAGHDAD.

  • >> HE COORDINATED AT ALL WITH

  • MEMBERS OF CONGRESS.

  • OF THE ENTIRE AND MOST RATIONS

  • HAVE GENERALLY DONE SO TO SOME

  • EXTENT.

  • OF >> ANDERSON SAID THE

  • PRESIDENT AND HIS TEAM STILL

  • HAVE THE UPPER HAND IN MANY

  • SITUATIONS.

  • >> THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAS A

  • HUGE AMOUNT OF DISCRETION AND

  • PRACTICALLY AND HOW THEY

  • INTERPRETED BOTH THE OWN

  • CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY AND

  • STATUTES THAT CONGRESS MIGHT

  • PASS TO GIVE IT ADDITIONAL

  • AUTHORITY FOR MILITARY FORCE.

  • >> A WORLD WAR II MARKS THE LAST

  • TIME CONGRESS OFFICIALLY

  • DECLARED WAR.

  • IN 1973, CONGRESS PASSED THE WAR

  • POWERS RESOLUTION WHICH REQUIRES

  • THE PRESIDENT TO NOTIFY CONGRESS

  • WITHIN 48 HOURS OF SENDING

  • TROOPS INTO HOSTILE TERRITORY.

  • FOLLOWING THE 9/11 ATTACKS,

  • CONGRESS PASSED THE

  • AUTHORIZATION FOR USE OF

  • MILITARY FORCE GIVING THE

  • PRESIDENT BROAD AUTHORITY IN

  • SPECIFIC CASES.

  • THE AUMF AS IT'S KNOWN, USED 41

  • TIMES IN 18 COUNTRIES.

  • THE SUPREME COURT NEVER RAILED

  • DIRECTLY ON THE PRESIDENTS

  • WORKHORSE BEFORE AND LEGAL

  • EXPERTS SAY THAT WAS BY THE SIGN

  • TO KEEP HIM OUT OF THE FIGHT AND

SENATE IN KANSAS.

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