00:01:43.440We'll take a look whatever they send over.
00:01:46.060Presumably, they'll communicate that in a formal way.
00:01:48.740They have, in a very careful way, followed the War Powers Act so far.
00:01:51.980Tom, I believe the War Powers Act is the one from Nixon in 73 that he was not supportive of, that you have to go get approval for everything with Congress.
00:02:02.420So the War Powers Act happened in 1973.0.80
00:02:05.420And 1973 was significant because for four years, the United States had been secretly bombing the living squat out of Cambodia from 1969 to 1973.
00:02:14.880It was called the secret bombing of Cambodia because they thought that there were communist insurgents that were over there operating camps and supply lines and a lot of havoc that they were flowing into Vietnam.
00:02:29.020And everybody wanted the Lyndon Johnson's war because, remember, the Vietnam War hit full speed within a year of Johnson being president.
00:02:37.840And actually, practically before all of the national mourning over Kennedy was over, Johnson had already met with military leaders and strategists and elected to escalate what was going on in Vietnam.
00:02:50.800So this had been going on for like years and years and years.
00:02:54.060And finally, Pat, the U.S. Congress is like, look, if we can't get a ceasefire, we can't get out of Vietnam and all these people are being drafted.
00:03:01.040And, you know, I had an uncle that went and didn't come back, unfortunately, and his name's on the Vietnam War wall there in Washington.
00:03:10.480And so Congress came up, Pat, and said, OK, stop. Unless you have specific instructions and support and a vote that says, yes, we're declaring war, just like when the president went before Congress and said, I want you to declare war on Japan after Pearl Harbor.
00:03:31.040It was a very formal vote, and the Congress said, yes, we're declaring war.0.58
00:03:35.600So it was all aligned, and Vietnam was not aligned.
00:03:39.180So all of this madness came together, Pat, in 1973, and they said, that's it.
00:03:44.160A president can go 60 days if they have to do some sort of emergency act, some bad thing happened.
00:03:51.040The military has to respond and do something about something, and you can't wait for Congress and the naval gazing, and you can't put your plans in public.
00:03:59.440So Congress said, okay, it is true that the president needs the pen, Pat, to act as a leader and to take steps.
00:04:07.440But after 60 days, if it's going further, you've got to get our permission, and that's the War Powers Act, and that's why they put it in place.
00:04:15.260And thank you, Pat. My question to you is, Tom, does does Pete Hexeth and the Department of War have to prove with intel behind closed doors, not in front of the public, that these threats, the nuclear plans and all that stuff is actually valid to continue it?
00:04:32.620Because I think 60 days is still a lot to just go, OK, we're going to go to war because we said this and then we're going to go after 60 days.
00:04:38.600Do they have to prove that this is correct? Is that what you're saying?
00:04:41.920The test is called the Unavoidable Military Necessity, and there are subcommittees that are secret subcommittees.
00:04:49.440There are – I believe there's 11 congressmen right now that will get secret briefings from the Department of Defense.
00:04:55.900It's like the Defense Select Subcommittee or something like that, Rob, if you look it up.
00:05:01.640I think it is called that, the Defense Select Subcommittee.
00:05:04.840And so the president, joint chiefs, and only those people know to create, you know, these committees for the purpose of discussing it.
00:05:16.380But it's unavoidable military necessity that they have to be convinced.
00:05:21.680And so they said, OK, then the subcommittee whispers to everybody else, we need to vote yes on this.
00:05:26.460We've seen it. We representative of Congress. We've seen this. We've talked to them.
00:05:31.120Yep. There it is. There it is. Unavoidable military necessity right there.
00:05:36.980So that's a checks and balance, even though, I mean, it is, you know, if a president says, hey, we're going to go to war, we're going to go to war.
00:05:43.040But at least this after 60 days is a checks and balances to go, OK, enough is enough.
00:05:47.820You guys don't have any proof or whatever, whichever way that they go.
00:05:50.660Right. But we live in a world where, aha, chewing gum in class, impeach the bastard.1.00
00:05:58.240No, no, I'm being ridiculous for a reason. I think you understand, Adam. It's like, it's ridiculous. We want to go after our president rather than trying to get ourselves toward a more unified world. And yes, war is a serious thing, but that's what's going on.0.73
00:08:00.580We had a department that was obsessed with gender, ideology, and race, diversity, equity, and inclusion.0.52
00:08:07.620In fact, the mantra you would hear dripping from the lips of generals with a serious look on their face was, our diversity is our strength, which is the single dumbest phrase in military history.
00:08:20.660Of course, our diversity is not our strength.
00:08:22.700Our unity is our strength, our shared purpose, the flag we wear and the constitution we serve to defend.
00:08:29.460And when you clear that debris away, whether it's Marxist ideologies or social engineering or political correctness or quotas based on gender and diversity, you get the best of the best rising up, regardless of gender, regardless of race, motivated by that environment where merit reigns.
00:08:48.440It's accountability. And go to the last one, Rob. And by the way, Ro Khanna called them out and said, hey, this has cost American people X, Y, Z amount of money because of gas prices.
00:08:56.600But this is another one here, Rob, if you want to play.
00:08:59.460always had a merit-based system that's not the argument no we have not not under the
00:09:04.460Biden administration we did not it became social engineering not merit and we're fixing it quick
00:09:08.700yeah so you you say you know it's not and go on the bottom of the tweet if you can see the picture
00:09:13.900yeah click on that that's real that's what we were dealing with that's absolutely that's what
00:09:18.020we were dealing with so don't tell me all this bs on what happened the pictures and the documentation
00:09:21.760is there Adam where are you at with the story look here's what I think is going on so the way that
00:09:26.260the War Powers Act worked is this. So the president can start a fight and he could, in the case of
00:09:31.620Iran, whoop some fricking A-double-S. But after 60 days, the Congress gets to go, no, no, no,1.00
00:09:37.700timeout, timeout, timeout. You can't keep fighting without permission. So what Pete Hegseth did was
00:09:44.400like, no, no, no, no, no. There's a loophole here. We're in a ceasefire right now. We're
00:09:50.340technically not even fighting for the last couple of weeks. So the 60 days doesn't even count. So
00:09:55.760there's sort of like a loophole timeout situation it's like this is a random reference you'll get
00:10:00.120this remember in wayne's world the great movie classic movie when they were playing hockey in
00:10:05.140the street and he's like game on yeah and then a car would come game off yeah that's what's going
00:10:10.320on here right now is there's like no you can't do this because it's by the way speaking of the
00:10:14.340worst powers act libya what obama did that he did it without the congressional approval afghanistan
00:10:20.200we've been doing this war in iran for how many weeks now about eight weeks how long we were in
00:10:25.080Afghanistan that wasn't a war that was a mission trip so the hypocrisy is kind of kind of out there
00:10:32.320but the last point is this uh it's amazing to me how the Democrats hate what's going on in Iran for
00:10:37.740the last uh eight weeks but love the last four years of the war in Ukraine which one is it they
00:10:44.980love Biden's war but they hate Trump's war I'm smelling a little hypocrisy there and just FYI
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