Dan Pfeiffer

You cannot credibly argue that Donald Trump without Congress on his own should unilaterally

launch a war with Iran.

That is an insane position for a Democrat.

Yeah.

All that War Powers Resolution is doing is saying Donald Trump has to come to Congress first.

There is not...

There is not an imminent threat here.

And if there was, then the president has the power to act, but there is not one.

We know this because Donald Trump told us quite recently that they obliterated the nuclear program in Iran.

If you want to vote to authorize the war, I think that is an insane position.

But that is a vote.

That is you putting your name in and saying, I support this.

I'm giving my power from a co-equal branch to authorize this military conflict.

To try to block the vote from ever happening to somehow burnish your national security bona fides is disgusting.

To be commanded by Pete Hickseth?

No, I don't think it's what people voted for.

I mean, this should be, honestly, one of the biggest stories in the country because it tells us two things.

One, it speaks to all of the massive ethical and policy dilemmas that come with

the very rapid emergence of AI.

It also reveals that the Department of Defense, because I will call it that, not the Department of War, under Donald Trump, would like the power to do mass domestic surveillance.