Jessica Tarlov
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the war in Iraq.
It was based on bad information, but there was a pitch that was made, right?
And like they talked to Americans and they had polling that backed it up.
None of that here.
And then by a ratio of two to one, Americans opposed Trump's actions in Venezuela and interest in the story has absolutely plummeted.
You know, we're still fascinated by it, but the average American has to get on with it and go to the grocery store and go back to work because...
Break is over.
The holidays are done.
I wanted to go back to what you were talking about at the top where you said my first question is the legality of this.
And, you know, that's going to be debated.
But in reality, it happened.
Right.
And we know that Donald Trump has no respect for congressional oversight on anything that he does in a foreign policy sphere or even domestically.
And we'll see what the Supreme Court does with the tariffs.
But we know he doesn't care.
Oversight is not a thing to him.
He'll tell a few Republicans about something else.
you know, if he particularly likes them.
But there's no chance that a Democrat is getting within, you know, 50 feet of it.
And Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley issued a joint statement about, you know, how they can't be ignored in these kinds of matters and there needs to be oversight.