And finally, Mr. President, there's one additional matter that puts this in a different light than last week. It was only last week, right before the vote, that some of us were informed by the White House that The White House refused to share with Congress the legal rationale for this war. Any administration that takes the nation to war does so bound to follow the law and Any administration that takes us to war does so on the basis of a legal opinion developed by the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. (08:19–08:26)
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Asserts that the White House has not shared the legal rationale for the war with Congress.
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