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Tammy Baldwin: “This president went to war, a war of choice. We were not…”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 01:06

And we keep hearing reason and shifting rationale. Look, the reason we need hearings is to allow the American public to have a say in this war. This president went to war, a war of choice. We were not under attack. We were not under imminent threat of attack. And the American people, through their elected members of Congress, have not had a voice in this yet. And that's why we're demanding hearings. (01:06–01:14)

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Asserts that the U.S. was not under attack or imminent threat when the President chose to go to war.

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