President Trump has done an end run around that. And in doing so, he's demonstrated that he's learned nothing. For the last for 25 years of war in the Middle east, more than 14,000 Americans killed, more than 65,000 Americans injured, hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, $8 trillion spent. And so the tool that we're using, Senator Booker and I and others, is a privileged motion that's been in the Senate statute for more than 50 years to allow … (01:49–02:02)
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