However, he says he believes that the Trump administration was prudent in keeping the mission from lawmakers before it happened. I'm very apprehensive of making sure that any president, whether it's a Democrat or Republican, has to go to Congress when we have an emergency strike on any country, because that obviously, we'd lose the element of surprise, which is very powerful and was was very effective in this case. (00:34–00:51)
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Asserts that requiring congressional approval for emergency military strikes would lose the element of surprise, which was effective in the [Maduro] case.
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