And I think the way we do that is by demanding that these administration officials come to Congress in public, answer questions because that matters. It engages the American public in this debate and that's how it was meant to be by the framers of our Constitution. Senator Booker, there are measurable costs of war and we're seeing that we have spent literally trillions of dollars now in wars in the Middle east from Afghanistan to Iraq to Syria. (16:44–16:52)
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