We need administration officials to come testify and to answer the tough questions in public. That's what this republic's all about. That's why we have three branches of government. That's why the Founding Fathers said the war power, as important a decision as going to war is, should be in the hands of the Congress, a public institution, not in the hands of just an executive. And yet right now, it's in the hands of an executive because our Republican colleagues are supine. They just aren't demanding hearings, aren't demanding the American that the president come clean in terms of talking to the American people. (04:37–04:52)
CLAIM
Asserts that the Founding Fathers intended war powers to be controlled by Congress, not solely the executive branch.
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