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Marco Rubio: “Every single president that has occupied this position since…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducts a White House briefing

Published | Video Starts at 1:00:04

The War Powers that act is unconstitutional 100%. Now this is not the position of me, not the position of the President, United States. Now this is the position of Every single president that has occupied this position since the day that law passed [has held that the War Powers Act is unconstitutional]. It's completely unconstitutional. Now, we comply with it in terms of, like, notification because we want to preserve good relations with Congress. Right? And we do that. (1:00:04–1:00:12)

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Asserts that all U.S. presidents since the War Powers Act was passed have considered it unconstitutional.

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