Vincent Oshana

We have serious constitutional concerns, and we don't want to layer those with additional statutory concerns.

I yield back.

All right, Rob, is that the clip on the war powers?

Okay, so this was a conversation that also came up in the meeting that we had yesterday.

Senate Republicans are calling on Trump administration to clarify how it is interpreting the 60-day clock under the War Powers Act, its military campaign against Iran.

The 60-day deadline, depending on who's counting, is arriving on requiring the president to seek authorization or wind down operation.

The first strike against Iran was February 28th.

But Defense Secretary Pietsek offered a different view during the testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee, suggesting the clock can pause or stop during a ceasefire.

Republicans include some of who have flirted with supporting a war powers resolution appeared open to exit interpretation.

It sounds like there's some wiggle room.

He provided there for himself, said Senator Todd Young from Indiana.

We'll take a look whatever they send over.

Presumably they'll communicate that in a formal way.

They have in a very careful way followed the War Powers Act so far.

Tom, I believe the War Powers Act is the one from Nixon in 73 that he was not supportive of, that you have to go get approval for everything with Congress.

So tell us why this is so important.

So the War Powers Act happened in 1973.

And 1973 was significant because for four years, the United States had been secretly bombing the living squat out of Cambodia from 1969 to 1973.

It was called the secret bombing of Cambodia because they thought that there were communist insurgents that were over there operating camps and supply lines and a lot of havoc that they were flowing into Vietnam.

And everybody wanted the...