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Raphael Warnock: “The decision to take us to war in the first place should…”

Featuring: Raphael Warnock, Democratic | U.S. Senate Georgia

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Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks at length about the Iran war, voting rights and more

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Does the Senate need to approve whatever has been agreed to, this Memorandum of understanding, the framework, whatever it's being called, if it is to be sustainable? And that's the whole point of an agreement, it needs to come through the Congress. The decision to take us to war in the first place should have come through the Congress. And so I think it's past time for Congress to assert itself. I am heartened that I've heard a few Republicans say that it ought to come through the Congress … (01:00–01:05)

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Asserts that the decision to go to war should have been approved by Congress.

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