The MeidasTouch Podcast
Senator Adam Schiff Discusses War Powers Resolution against Trump
09 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Donald Trump is losing it after Republicans in the Senate seem to have turned against him on a vote about a War Powers Resolution Act preventing Donald Trump from further action in Venezuela without congressional approval. This War Powers vote leads to another vote that needs to take place, but it was a 52 to 47 vote, a bipartisan vote. Here's what Donald Trump posted.
Republicans should be ashamed of the senators that just voted with Democrats in attempting to take away our powers to fight and defend the United States of America. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Todd Young should never be elected to office again.
This vote greatly hampers American self-defense and national security, impeding the president's authority as commander in chief. in any event. And despite their stupidity, the War Powers Act is unconstitutional, totally violating Article 2 of the Constitution, as all presidents and their Department of Justice have determined before me.
Nevertheless, a more important Senate vote will be taking place next week on this very subject. And then thereafter, Donald Trump sent his architect, his new architect for the White House East Wing, to talk about demolishing the West Wing or rebuilding the West Wing now. And the Those are what their priorities there.
And I guess also oil companies subsidizing, being subsidized by the taxpayers to the tune of like $100 billion or something like that. Let's bring in Senator Adam Schiff of California. Senator Schiff, you were the principal co-sponsor of Tim Kaine's resolution here in this bill, this War Powers Act resolution.
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Chapter 2: What triggered the War Powers Resolution Act against Trump?
And isn't that even clear? She seems to still be saying that she's going to have a relationship with Iran and China. And they certainly looked happy at her swearing in. So talk to us about that as well.
Well, I think you're absolutely right about all of that. To the degree that this was not about drugs, it was also not about democracy. They didn't even make any pretense that this was about restoring the rightful government, the government that we have recognized that is the
government or potential government of Maria Karina Machado, who won that election, her surrogate, won that election, Oscar Gonzalez. That is who should be brought back to Venezuela. But they have no intention of doing so. Instead, they're going to rely on the same corrupt regime, just a different corrupt actor.
So instead of the number one corrupt actor, Maduro, they're going to rely on his number two Rodriguez, the vice president, now acting president. Because again, this was only about the oil, access to the oil.
And the idea that somehow we're gonna run this country at a distance by constraining their ability to sell oil, that they're gonna go through some transition, that they're gonna become a different kind of government, that all of the drug gangs and the muscle of the regime, Iran and Cuba and all the other foreign actors are simply going to dissipate
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Chapter 3: How did the Senate vote on the War Powers Resolution Act unfold?
is fanciful. It isn't going to happen. And you can just see us getting mired down in Venezuela initially, maybe putting diplomats on the ground and then they need protection for the diplomats. And then all of a sudden we have boots on the ground. And, you know, if anything,
One of the commonalities within the public, a deeply divided public, but one of the commonalities between the Democratic base and the MAGA base is neither side wants to engage in another endless war that's about regime change, that's about nation building, and most particularly not if it's about oil. So I think we're gonna see over time, this has very little public support.
And I think that's what you're seeing Republican members react to in the Senate today.
You know, you're a former federal prosecutor. You think about also what Maduro's main 12 motion to dismiss is going to be head of state immunity.
Chapter 4: What are Trump's reactions to the Senate's bipartisan vote?
And the Trump regime is going to argue you're a de facto head of state. You lost the election. You're not really in power. But then he's going to say, well, Trump's also been calling me the president and the leader of Venezuela who he kidnapped. And then Trump has embraced my regime as the legitimate people in power. So if you're working with my crew, Shouldn't I have head of state immunity?
To me, it also, who knows what Judge Hellerstein's going to do in that case. But to me, it also isn't thought through from all these other areas as well. And then what, Trump just assumes the oil companies are going to be like, yeah, Donald, we want to go in there and that very kind of muddy oil that requires $100 billion of investments, but now the taxpayers are going to subsidize this.
There doesn't seem to be any thought, I guess is what I'm saying, to any of this. And these types of decisions require thought. He's winging it like the student who shows up having read the homework and gets called on. And that's not how our government should be run.
No, absolutely not. And you've seen these shifting explanations and rationalizations, the most recent of which was this was just a law enforcement action. This was not a military intervention. This was not a war. This was just the military being used to escort the Justice Department in its enforcement of a warrant against Maduro.
Of course, if that were the case, if that legal justification were really what was going on, this would be over by now. Maduro's been apprehended. He's been brought to court. Therefore, the warrant has been served, and there would be no need for any further military involvement. But of course, this is not about that. It's about the oil. As we were saying, it's not about democratic governance.
Otherwise, and I think I said Oscar, but Edmund Gonzalez, the one that we have recognized as having won the last election, would be brought back to lead the government. But that is obviously not happening. And I will say this. for a president who dissembles all the time, who has no loyalty, obedience, or understanding of the truth.
He's nevertheless been transparent about one thing, and that is he has talked about oil, I think, more than two dozen times since this military operation and made it very clear what this is about. So I take him at his word on this, that it's about the oil, that he intends to try to run that country, that this is gonna be a long-term commitment.
He also made that clear that we're not talking about months, we're talking about years. I just think that the administration's expectation that all of this can happen magically without the necessity of Americans being fully involved, without putting our service members at risk, without putting our treasury at risk, I think is just,
a farce and sadly we have failed to learn from the experience that we suffered in Iraq and have suffered other places.
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Chapter 5: Why is Senator Adam Schiff advocating for the War Powers Resolution?
They're sending more ICE agents to Minnesota. They want the provocation and this is not gonna end. They're gonna continue doing this, wreaking havoc in our cities. They want the confrontation. What a horrible disservice and what a horrible tragedy. And I hope Minnesota will insist on being part of that investigation. You certainly cannot trust Kristi Noem or anything she says or does.
Sadly, you can't trust an FBI investigation led by Kash Patel. Minnesota needs to have its own role in that investigation, needs to have access to the witnesses and the evidence. I think it's the only way that we're gonna get a just conclusion and make sure that if that investigation confirms that this agent used excessive deadly force, that there are real consequences for that.
I'm sorry, Senator, before we go really quickly, as a federal prosecutor, I gotta get your take on
what they're doing by covering up these epstein files because you've dealt with large document productions and this doj isn't even speaking the language of esi electronically started from like like nothing that they even said from the beginning with a few hundred thousand records just never made sense to me given the size of cases i handled where there were terabytes of documents and financials and all of these things what do you make of the latest round of cover-up and the violation of the epstein transparency act
and the way the DOJ is going about it as someone who was a former federal prosecutor.
Well, I think what they've decided to do is make sure that they go through whatever materials they have and insulate the president in every way that they can. And they will draw this out and they are drawing it out.
The idea that they suddenly discovered that there were hundreds and hundreds of thousands of more documents that were in the possession of the Southern District of New York as if they hadn't done that inventory. And look, maybe it is the fact that they, to some degree, Just didn't want to look, didn't want to see, didn't want to find out. Now they're legally required to, and they're stonewalling.
And we're just going to keep forcing this issue and pressing this issue to make sure the truth comes out. The victims deserve nothing less, and the law requires it.
Senator Schiff, thanks for joining us. Thank you. Everybody hit subscribe.
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