Ben Rhodes

And nobody asked for this.

And tell me, I'd say, just to take another point that doesn't get discussed much, the price tag for this thing, I was talking to- Billions.

I was talking to somebody today who was suggesting to me that if it's just even like a few weeks, tens of billions, right?

This massive amount of military force moving and deploying into the Middle East and then all these munitions being used, maybe the damage that's being done.

We saw some damage to our facility in Bahrain.

I mean, do Americans want us to be spending tens of billions of dollars to aggrandize Donald Trump to go along with Bibi Netanyahu's obsession with killing the Supreme Leader and moving the Iranian regime?

Well, first of all, you're right, because we saw this build up for weeks.

Good on Ro Khanna for tabling this resolution.

But to the people who are telling us, oh, we're working it through the process.

Well, you just proved the point that if you really cared about this thing, you would have fought like hell to get a vote on this before Trump actually bombed the country.

It kind of speaks to how Congress has been absent on this thing that they're going to have to vote after.

I want to pick out some of the people who've been good, and I'm not going to be able to name check everybody.

But like Tim Kaine and Chris Van Hollen in the Senate- And long-term consistent, both of them, about war powers.

And not just war powers, though.

As diverse people as Tim Kaine, Chris Van Hollen, and AOC had different components where they're like, it's illegal, it's unnecessary, they lied about the reasons to do it, and it ignores the lessons of history.

of regime change wars in the Middle East.

So that's an objection on policy, process, history, all of it.

That's the kind of case you can make.

Jason Crow, I think, made a very powerful case as a veteran where he's like, not only is this not what the American people want, this doesn't lower prices, but time and again, working class people have been screwed because they have to foot the bill for these wars by fighting in them or paying the taxes for them.

You know, so there's that kind of populist message that is important.