First of all, the president, as the commander in Chief under Article 2, does have the authority, we believe, to engage troops. We don't think there's any question about that. The second part is If you are actually going to have a declared war, then Congress has to do that. in the middle ground. We have the War Powers act which says that, and this has been an agreement that the presidents have done and President Trump has agreed to do so as well. (00:44–00:50)
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Asserts that Congress must declare war for it to be official.
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