Bill Kristol

I mean, who enforces the law?

The president doesn't insist on it.

The JAGs, the DOD seems to have been gutted in terms of its internal checks and balances.

Justice Department's not going to do anything.

It's really a very bad, this is when you come back to Congress, courts can do a little, you come back to Congress and this has in other areas.

Now here we do have a little bit of congressional action, right?

The kind of joint statements by the Republican chairs and the ranking Democrats and both the Senate and House Armed Services Committee.

So maybe a little hope that this is so shocking that maybe they will do something and maybe it'll remind them they can do a whole lot of other things as well.

I don't know if we do, actually.

I think we said, Trump said we do.

I read somewhere that there's still flights taking off, so I don't know.

I still think Trump's aversion, the lesson he's learned that starting these wars doesn't work out well for presidents politically.

It might be strong enough that it's all bluff and talk and he's going to then claim victory with Maduro and he will make some deal.

And maybe he will get access, he'll get U.S.

access to a lot of the oil or something like that.

And then he'll forget, of course, entirely about the huge human rights violations and the refugees and everything else, all the other damage Maduro is doing to the country and decide, you know what, he can get along with Maduro just like he's getting along with Trump.

Every other dictator he runs into and can kind of deal with.

So I don't know.

It's so irresponsible.

It's so reckless.