Trump Goes Psycho Over House War Vote!!

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2:34Ben Meiselas:On this, the yeas are 47, the nays are 53. The motion to discharge is not approved. What you just witnessed there was the result of Donald Trump ordering the United States Senate, the MAGA Republicans in the United States Senate, along with John Fetterman, Democratic senator from Pennsylvania to vote against a war powers resolution, which would block Donald Trump's unlawful war against Iran. So you saw right there, the Senate actually voted against this critical war powers resolution. And now it goes to the House of Representatives, where a vote takes place today. I want to discuss how important this is still.

3:18Ben Meiselas:But in the Senate, the vote was 47 to 53. You had Republican Rand Paul voting with the Democrats on the 47 side. John Fetterman voted with the Republicans on that 53 voting against the War Powers Resolution with the MAGA Republicans in the Senate and Fetterman giving up their role in Congress to block Donald Trump's unlawful war. Absolutely pathetic. So now it goes to the House of Representatives. But this is very important. Even though the Senate voted against it, it is critical that we see where all the Democrats stand. We see where all the Republicans stand when it comes to this unlawful war, because this is a deeply, deeply unpopular war.

4:06Ben Meiselas:How unpopular is it? Well, just think about this fact right here. The Iraq war started with an approval rating of 70 percent. The lowest it ever hit was 42%. Just think about that staggering fact. This war right now started with an approval of 41%. Just think about that. And you have all the MAGA Republicans who are out there saying, whatever, the war started. So since it started, it would be unpatriotic for us to stop it now. They're literally using that line like Susan Collins, who got that order from Donald Trump. And by the way, she's running for reelection in that Senate seat in Maine. Remember that Maine?

4:51Ben Meiselas:Here's what she said. She was very concerned about all of this. She said, passing this resolution, the war powers resolution to block Donald Trump's unlawful war. She says it would send the wrong message to Iran and to our troops at this juncture, providing unequivocal support to our service members is critically important as is ongoing consultation by the administration with Congress. Now, Graham Plattner, Democratic candidate for Senate in Maine, also a veteran, said the following, well, what else can we do but support the war? Are we really doing this already? This thing just effing started.

5:31Ben Meiselas:This is the worst version of why we stayed in Iraq for so long, for the dumbest reasons and being done by the same people who clearly have learned nothing. And as Donald Trump panics, this is what he's ordering MAGA Republicans to do, block the War Powers Resolution vote. The War Powers Resolution vote is critical. And frankly, we shouldn't even need a War Powers Resolution because only Congress has the power to declare war, not the executive branch. The executive branch needs to seek the authorization of Congress. It's in our damn constitution. But now, of course, the MAGA Republicans got their message from the Trump regime, and it's just out of Putin's playbook.

6:14Ben Meiselas:Don't call it a war. Just call it a special military operation. That's all you have to do. And that's what the MAGA Republican sycophants are doing, like MAGA Republican Congress member Mike Flood before the vote that's taking place today on the War Powers resolution, Mike Flood says it's not a war. It's a significant military operation. Here, play this clip. This war. Well, I think the president has the authority.

6:42Donald Trump:Would you consider it a war? It's a significant military operation.

6:47Ben Meiselas:What about what MAGA Mike Johnson is saying? Well, MAGA Mike Johnson got the order for Donald Trump to tell all of the MAGAs in Congress that you will get politically rewarded here by voting against the War Powers Resolution. The American people want this war, Maga Mike says, because that's what Donald Trump's telling everybody. Here, play this clip.

7:11Donald Trump:I trust the American people. I trust that they will evaluate all these things and they will understand that this administration did the right thing. I think they'll reward it politically. But if if if people get a bad taste in their mouth for what happened back here in the first part of the year in Iran. They just do. But we know, and history will record, we did the right thing. I think passage of a war powers resolution right now would be a terrible, dangerous idea for all the reasons I've just explained. It would empower our enemies. It would kneecap our own forces, and it would take the ability of the U.S.

7:41Donald Trump:military and the commander-in-chief away from completing this critical mission to keep everybody safe.

7:47Ben Meiselas:Not only is MAGA Mike willing to vote against the War Powers Resolution and demand that MAGA Republicans in Congress be in lockstep with it. MAGA Mike is ready to start taking all of our taxpayer dollars immediately and giving it to supplemental assistance, supplemental for the war. Congress will pass a war funding supplemental when appropriate. At least, what,$50 billion is what we're hearing to provide additional funding for this war. That money could have gone to health care. That money could have gone to affordable housing. That money could have gone to numerous other things that actually would help the American people.

8:32Ben Meiselas:But now it's going to help us build more munitions for the war in Iran, which is an absolute disaster right now as more service members are being killed. That's what they're doing. I'll bring you to the House floor where there was debate about the War Powers Resolution. Let me show you what the Democrats are saying, because I echo a lot of their sentiments right here. Not because they're Democrats saying it, but because I don't believe in regime change wars without plans. I don't believe in sending our soldiers out there to Iran like that without any defined mission. I don't like it. I despise it.

9:10Ben Meiselas:It's again, it's unconstitutional. It's unlawful. Well, here's what Democratic Congress member Castro has to say. Play this clip.

9:17Donald Trump:Why now? Well, Secretary Rubio told us himself. He said that Israel was going to strike Iran, which would have triggered Iranian strikes on U.S. forces in the region. But rather than pick up the phone and tell Benjamin Netanyahu to stand down, the president of the United States buckled and decided to join their war. How is this America first? For 25 years, a generation of American service members and their families have sacrificed so much because of regime change wars in the Middle East. President Trump is now asking yet another generation of Americans to sacrifice in the hope that this time it will go differently than Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya.

10:02Donald Trump:This is Donald Trump's war. This is Benjamin Netanyahu's war. Your vote today will determine whether this is your war, too. I urge you to support this resolution.

10:14Ben Meiselas:Powerful words indeed. What about Democratic Congress member McGovern? Play this clip. Mr.

10:19Donald Trump:Speaker, nobody is defending the Ayatollah. There is no love lost for a brutal government that sponsors terror and murders their people. Iran has been doing this for decades. Everybody knows that. And so my question is this. Why wasn't Donald Trump in favor of regime change until this weekend? Why did he campaign on swearing he would never send American kids to fight and die in the Middle East? Republicans can't answer because they were against war with Iran until exactly the second Donald Trump decided to go to war. And now they're all running around sounding like neocon lunatics. America can't take this level of gaslighting.

10:58Donald Trump:I went to the classified briefing. There was no imminent threat. I guess unless Republicans want to redefine the word imminent to mean stretching back 47 years. This whole thing is just so transparently built on lies. Republicans went from imminent threat to regime change to nukes back to imminent threat in the last 24 hours. I'll tell you I'll tell you what this is Mr. Speaker. This is Iraq 2.0. I still remember the lies about WMDs. I voted against that war too. At least George Bush had the decency to lie to people's face. And by the way, no congressional vote can legitimize this because there was no imminent threat.

11:40Donald Trump:There was no UN Security Council resolution. So this war is illegal no matter what you want to call it. And it's not Donald Trump's kids that will have to go fight and die for their draft dodging dad. It's not the children of the billionaire Epstein class. It's working class kids who are going to put their lives on the line. Shame on Republicans. I'm sick of this BS. We're spending billions of dollars a day on a war and we can't even get Republicans to join us to expand health care in America. How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it.

12:19Donald Trump:Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of times expired.

12:26Ben Meiselas:And I'll give credit where credit's due to Republicans. Thomas Massey clearly articulating why this war is unlawful, as well as the all of the lies that this regime has been selling. Let's play this clip. And for what?

12:41Donald Trump:This administration can't even give us a straight answer as to why we launched this preemptive war. The president says we had to strike first because an Iranian strike was imminent. Meanwhile, the Department of Defense conceded there was no evidence of an imminent Iranian strike. Some told us this war was about nuclear weapons, but six months ago, we were assured our last strike on Iran decimated their nuclear program. So which is it? I think the most candid answer came from the Secretary of State, who told the press that Israel forced our hand and dragged us into this war again. And that truth is the very reason why it is Congress that must decide war.

13:27Donald Trump:If American lives are to be risked and American blood is to be shed, that decision must be debated and voted on by the representatives of the American people. And that debate is meant to be arduous. And that vote is meant to be hard. I have a theory. I think my colleagues don't want to go on record because we have a terrible track record of meddling in the Middle East. They don't want their name associated with this when it doesn't turn out well. But Congress cannot be bothered with its constitutional duty because for many in this chamber, it's easier to simply allow someone else's sons and daughters to be sent to combat without their vote.

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16:13Ben Meiselas:And, you know, Democratic Congress member Raskin is going to step in and make some great points here. Let's play this clip.

16:19Donald Trump:I think the speaker and the ranking member, yes, use all lawful and constitutional means. I heard one of our colleagues across the aisle just say, well, yes, Article One, Section 8, Clause 11 does give Congress the exclusive plenary, comprehensive power to declare war and not the president. and we could be debating it, but the president's already taken us to war, so it's too late. It would undermine the cause for us to debate it. What a humiliating, self-defeating argument for a member of the Article I branch of Congress to be making. Don't you understand that destroys our power to declare war if any president can plunge us into a war and thereby defeat our exclusive plenary power over it.

17:06Donald Trump:The framers weren't fooling around when they did that. They knew that the kings were constantly plunging their people into wars of deception, conceit, plunder, imperial avarice, fantasy. Constantly the kings were doing that. They didn't want to leave it up to one person to decide whether or not to send a whole country into war and to put our sons and daughters at risk, that is an awesome, solemn responsibility that must be vested in the representatives of the people, all the people, which is why both the House and the Senate are involved in it. So whether you think this war is the most brilliant strategic breakthrough and moral cause since World War II, or you think it's an absolute strategic blunder built on lies like the last wars in Iraq or the war in Afghanistan, which cost thousands of lives and more than a trillion dollars.

18:04Donald Trump:Wherever you are on that policy question, can we not agree as members of the Article I branch that it's up to us? We've got to vote on it. We've got to debate on it. I'm hearing very interesting, good arguments all over the spectrum on this. That's why it's reposed in the representatives of the people to decide it, not Donald Trump, not J.D. Vance, not Tulsi Gabbard or anybody else in the executive branch. It's our decision. Everybody should be voting yes on this resolution.

18:34Ben Meiselas:Now back to Republican Congressmember Massey. Let's play it.

18:37Donald Trump:The 1973 War Powers Resolution states plainly that the president may only introduce U.S. armed forces into hostilities pursuant to three conditions, either one declaration of war, two, specific statutory authorization, or three, a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States. None of those conditions exist today. Iran has not attacked the United States, Congress has not declared war, and Congress has not granted specific statutory authorization. Beyond the constitutional question, here lies an even more important one. Why are we going to war with Iran? We owe our military service members a clear mission.

19:22Donald Trump:And American families in my district want to know how this is going to help them pay for groceries. How does this make them any safer in their schools or in their neighborhoods? How does this help them pay for housing? Have we learned nothing from the laundry list of wars and regime change experiments we sparked across the Middle East that have racked up a total of at least$8 trillion of debt in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan. A sustained war with Iran will not stabilize the region. It's already ignited the region. It will radicalize new generations of terrorists and it will send more swarms of refugees into Europe and the United States.

20:04Ben Meiselas:More from Massey right here. Let's play it.