Mike Davis

You guys, and I had to come back through the Atlanta airport.

That was quite a task at three in the morning.

But there are fighters down in Georgia, and we're going to, it's all, there's only one truth, Stephen.

It's all coming out.

It's amazing.

Absolutely amazing what's going on.

I do think that there are a few tiny differences between the way the administration dealt with Congress before the Venezuela operation and before this Iranian operation.

Before Venezuela, the administration didn't do much outreach to the members that you would typically see an administration do outreach to.

In this instance, my sources tell me and my colleague, Julia Jester, that Secretary of State Marco Rubio actually did do his best to reach out to all members of the Gang of Eight.

That's the top four congressional leaders from both parties.

And then, of course, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee from both parties.

Rubio was able to make those calls.

He wasn't able to get in touch with all of them because some of them were traveling, not able to pick up the phone.

But I do think that that is one key difference.

Of course, it does not explain away the fact that if Trump is calling it a war and warning of American casualties, he did not.

do this through congressional authorization.

But I think there's something the administration is going to lean on in the coming days here, because a U.S.

official is telling MSNOW that Rubio, during that briefing on Tuesday that he did with the Gang of Eight before Trump stayed in the union, the U.S.

official is saying that Rubio consulted with congressional leaders during that.

Speaker Mike Johnson put out a statement this morning where he said that Rubio, during that Gang of Eight briefing on Tuesday,