Jeffrey Sachs
speaker
3,689 appearances
22 recordings
10 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard 6d ago
Jeffrey Sachs’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Commander in Chief, yes, but he knew there was a branch of Congress that was essential for this.
I don't see any such decision making taking place right now.
And this is absolutely dangerous.
Uh, actually, uh, the president of the United States needs to get real analysis, data, intelligence, internal debate, opposition.
And the president has ultimate decisions on many things, not on everything, but on many things.
but not on the basis of a gut, not on the basis of a whim, not on the basis of, I believe that Iran is like Venezuela, which I think was part of the idea, not on the basis of Netanyahu spinning some absurd yarn or Mossad spinning some absurd yarn to one person with a group of sycophants
listening in and saying, well, I don't know, it looks doubtful, but I will follow you, Mr. President.
That is not the kind of deliberative process that keeps us in safety.
I think the degradation of our political system is so deep right now that maybe there is no...
No chance for that.
But I do every day plead with the congressional leaders to do their constitutional duty because they're not doing it right now.
I know.
And it's not, you know, be good and go tell Trump.
They're...
a co-equal branch of government that under Article I of the Constitution assigns them the responsibility for war, for the declaration of war.
It's not even shared.
They are the only branch that can declare war.
And when, I don't know how many umpteen times now, the Republicans all but one
All but the best Republican senator by far, Rand Paul.
I regard him as the best senator in the whole Senate.
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