Jim Himes

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274 appearances 15 recordings 6 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 2 Jul

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Iran Retaliates Against U.S. as Top Dems Respond · 23 Jun 2025 podcast

The War Powers Act says the president can go to war if there is an imminent, an immediate attack on the United States, or if there's been a declaration of war of congressional approval.

Now, there's a lot of whataboutists out there right now saying, oh, well, Biden did it and Bill Clinton sent st you know tomahawks into Somalia and stuff.

And yes, yes, presidents have consistently abrogated congressional power.

But here's the difference.

Right.

When President Clinton sent a bunch of missiles into Somalia.

Or when uh uh Joe Biden put troops on the ground in Syria.

Uh we weren't playing with uh we weren't playing a nuclear game the way we're playing right now.

We didn't have forty thousand troops that were very much under the guns of the people that we were going after.

And so the constitution would say you always do this, and I get it, presidents haven't always done it, but you sure as hell do it when the stakes are as high.

as they are uh in this uh Israeli and subsequent US strike on Iran.

And you know that

That was the intention of the founding uh the founders in the uh constitution.

And we gotta not forget that if there's forty thousand people at risk, the people who represent those forty thousand people and their families get to have a conversation about whether this is a good idea.

Well, um

It's a that's a very it's it's not surprising, um, but it's pretty scary, right?

Uh and it's pretty scary in the sense that

Uh we can defend those bases.

And I'm thinking of the naval base at Bahrain, I'm thinking of the air base that we have in Qatar and obviously other other uh deployed troops around the region.

Um the Iranians have the ability to do a lot of harm.

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