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Mike Rounds: “It's been since World War II. Since that's happened that…”

Featuring: Mike Rounds, Republican | U.S. Senate South Dakota

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Rounds on Newsmax to Discuss the Recent Military Strikes

Published | Video Starts at 05:22

Let me just declare war. We haven't declared war since World War II. Declare war. And that empowers a president. Do a lot of things. It does. But as you know, It's been since World War II. Since that's happened that way. Things happen a lot faster now than what they did in World War II. It's really too bad, because that. I mean, the President's got one hand tied behind his back, whereas if we had. (05:22–05:26)

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Asserts that a formal declaration of war has not occurred since World War II.

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