Sadly, Congress did act, and they acted to give the president carte blanche here. They basically acted to be wildly weak and pathetic souls who were just going to give away their authority to this president. So This is the president's war he started, and now it's the president's war he's got to figure out how to get out of. And he's surrounded by an incompetent leader in Hegseth who I think really doesn't have a clue on what he's doing here. And right now, pardon me, right now we have a more destabilized situation. (42:13–42:19)
CLAIM
Asserts that the current war was initiated by the president and is his responsibility to resolve.
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