Andrew Sage

Yeah, like it's not announced as an executive action on whitehouse.gov, and I think normally it goes there...

and then the seven-day congressional period commences, then it's not in the Federal Register either.

Right now, all we have is a truth.

Yeah, and this is the problem.

This is sort of the Calvin Ball War in that they're using the names of actual legal categories and things that have material effects in the world, but they're just posts.

And I want to be very clear about this.

Even just...

doing a blockade on these sanctioned vessels is an act of war.

Yeah.

That's very deliberately an act of war.

It is an act of imperial aggression.

It is morally wrong.

It is also unbelievably illegal under the War Powers Act.

And this has actually gotten a response from Democrats in Congress.

There's been a few measures... CBS is reporting this.

There's been a few measures...

to stop the president from starting a war here.

I'm going to quote CBS.

A second measure from Democratic Rep.

Jim McGovern in Massachusetts would remove the armed forces, quote, from hostilities with or against Venezuela that have not been authorized by Congress.