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Speaker 1: It's gonna be mostly cloudy day and very humid. They're saying,
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Speaker 1: six pm and midnight. Today's high eighty six overnight, mostly
Speaker 1: cloudy skies. You could see a few showers. That'll drop
Speaker 1: to sixty nine degrees. Little more cooler tomorrow with the
Speaker 1: high of eighty degrees. Not as humid as well, but
Speaker 1: still some isolated showers as storms of possibility over Thursday night,
Speaker 1: clear skies for the most part, sixty four for the low. Friday,
Speaker 1: a partly clotty day, and the heat rolls in. We'll
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Speaker 1: over the weekend through Monday, seventy four degrees. Right now,
Speaker 1: time for a traffic update, Chuck Ingram, No, we're not
Speaker 1: going to do that. Why because Judge ed apolitanoism there.
Speaker 1: Joe sent him the link. We've got the column. He
Speaker 1: even responded to Joe's email with the link. So normally
Speaker 1: I'm looking at him on zoom and sadly enough Judge
Speaker 1: and Politano not there. Anyway, I can still tell you
Speaker 1: what he wanted to talk about. Trump war in the Constitution. So,
Speaker 1: in the absence of the Polatanom, I can give you
Speaker 1: an advance reading of the column. As the United States
Speaker 1: becoming President Trump recently condemned, can the President fight any
Speaker 1: war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses?
Speaker 1: Are their constitutional and legal requirements that must be met
Speaker 1: before war is waged? These questions should be central to
Speaker 1: debate over the US involvement in Ukraine, Gaza, in Iran. Sadly,
Speaker 1: there has been no great debate mainstream media or mouthing
Speaker 1: what CIA is telling them, and only a few websites
Speaker 1: and podcasts are challenging the government's reckless, immoral and illegal,
Speaker 1: unconstitutional wars. And I talked about this all morning. Here's
Speaker 1: the backstory. All power in the federal government comes from
Speaker 1: the Constitution and from no other source. Congress is restrained
Speaker 1: by the Constitution and by treaties to which the US
Speaker 1: is a party. Congress cannot legally declare a war on Russia, Gaza,
Speaker 1: or Iran since there are no militarily grounded reasons for
Speaker 1: doing so. Russia poses no threat to American national security,
Speaker 1: persons or property, nor do Gaza or Iran. Moreover, US
Speaker 1: is no treaty with Ukraine or Israel that triggers an
Speaker 1: American military obligation. Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare
Speaker 1: war on a nation or group. Last time it did
Speaker 1: so was to initiate America's involvement of World War Two.
Speaker 1: The Congress has given away limited authority to presidents and
Speaker 1: permitted them to fight undeclared wars, such as the War
Speaker 1: Power Resolution of nineteen seventy three in President George W.
Speaker 1: Bush's invasion of Afghanistan in Iraq, which were done under
Speaker 1: an authorization for use of military force. Congress has not
Speaker 1: only not declared war on Russia or Gaza or Iran,
Speaker 1: and it has not authorized use of American forces in
Speaker 1: those countries. Yet it has given the president a blank
Speaker 1: check and authorized him to spend it on military equipment
Speaker 1: for Ukraine and Israel. However it sees fit. President Donald
Speaker 1: Trump came into the office promising to end America's forever wars. Instead,
Speaker 1: the United States continues to fund a war his predecessors
Speaker 1: entered into in Ukraine, the goal of which was to
Speaker 1: eliminate Russian troops from Ukraine and Crimea and Russian President
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin from office, none of these objectives is realistically obtainable.
Speaker 1: In Gaza, the Israeli goal has been to remove by
Speaker 1: death or force all Palestinians from their ancestral land. That goal,
Speaker 1: which is morally reprehensible and militarily unfeasible, has produced more
Speaker 1: than fifty five thousand civilian deaths, none of this to
Speaker 1: the benefit of the United States. In Iran, the President
Speaker 1: lulled the Iranians in believing that the United States was
Speaker 1: seriously negotiating with them, while the US intelligence assets planned
Speaker 1: and helped execute the Israeli attack on Tehran last week,
Speaker 1: some of which murdered the negotiators. Is Iran, which US
Speaker 1: and intelligence Israeli intelligence have concluded has no nuclear weapons,
Speaker 1: as Israel does, the slightest threat to the US national security.
Speaker 1: The judge right it does not. We don't know how
Speaker 1: many American intelligence as officers or in Ukraine and Gaza Iran,
Speaker 1: but we know that they are there. This is something
Speaker 1: I've talked about with Daniel Davis before. During Trump's first
Speaker 1: term in office, the CIA built twenty facilities for its
Speaker 1: officers and agents across the Ukraine. We also know that
Speaker 1: they're involved in hostilities since much of the US hardware
Speaker 1: used against Russia and Gaza in defense of and in
Speaker 1: defense of Israel, requires American know how to operate and maintain.
Speaker 1: Are American intelligence officers killing Russian soldiers, Gaza civilians and
Speaker 1: Iranian officials. The White House prefers not to answer. Yet
Speaker 1: none of this has been authorized by Congress. Now back
Speaker 1: to the Constitution. The War Powers Resolution, which requires presidential
Speaker 1: notification to Congress of the use of American military force,
Speaker 1: is unconstitutional because it consists of Congress giving away one
Speaker 1: of its core functions declaring war. The Supreme Court is
Speaker 1: characterized that delegating away of core functions as a volative
Speaker 1: of the separation of powers and thus unconstitutional. However, I
Speaker 1: gotta chime in, it has never been a Supreme Court
Speaker 1: case specifically involving the War Powers Resolution doing that, although
Speaker 1: you can certainly draw the lines from the other cases
Speaker 1: to the same conclusion. That's my words. Back to neapolitanum
Speaker 1: or over, the statute only applies to the militaria, does
Speaker 1: not constrain and require reporting the use of intelligence personnel
Speaker 1: to fight wars. Nevertheless, Trump has not informed Congress of
Speaker 1: his intentions to use American troops violently. Yet he has
Speaker 1: used the Navy, the Air Force, and the CIA to
Speaker 1: attack civilians in Yemen at war crime, and he has
Speaker 1: soldiers out of uniform in Ukraine so as to perpetuate
Speaker 1: the Biden era deception that American boots are not there
Speaker 1: on the ground. Don't be surprised if Trump gives war
Speaker 1: powers Act Notice secretly to the Gang of Eight. Here's
Speaker 1: a subset of the problem, folks. That's the Congress. Within
Speaker 1: the Congress, consisting of the chairs and ranking members of
Speaker 1: the House and Intelligence committees, and the Republican and Democrat
Speaker 1: leaders of the House and Senate, with which the President
Speaker 1: legally shares secrets. Just as Congress cannot delegate away it's
Speaker 1: war making powers to the president, it can't delegate him
Speaker 1: to the Gang of Eight. Oh there he is, Joseph Paulitano.
Speaker 1: Are you there? His image is frozen. The Gang of
Speaker 1: Eight is antith antithetical to the government values informing them
Speaker 1: of whether or whatever violence the President is up to
Speaker 1: is done under oath of secrecy. What kind of democracy
Speaker 1: operates and kills in secret? Are you there, your honor?
Speaker 2: Yes, I am. My apologies the internet issues I kept
Speaker 2: getting kicked out somebody in Cincinnati, not you or a streker, doesn't.
Speaker 1: And he froze up again.
Speaker 2: Oh and again I'm back.
Speaker 1: Now, this is crazy. We didn't even run the Ingram
Speaker 1: report this morning since you weren't there, so we would
Speaker 1: be It would seem out of place if he introduces
Speaker 1: you and you didn't show up and respond, so we'll
Speaker 1: blame you.
Speaker 2: I was doing my best to show up, and from
Speaker 2: what I was hearing, it sounds like you were reading or.
Speaker 1: Paraphrasing complications arise again. I was, if you can hear me,
Speaker 1: I was, in fact reading your column. We were going
Speaker 1: to dress it on the fly during our communications. I
Speaker 1: got through everything except the last basically two paragraphs, Your honor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know it's a fascinating issue. Can the
Speaker 2: president start a war on his own? The short answer
Speaker 2: is no. The long answer is the list. Time Congress
Speaker 2: declared war was December eighth, nineteen forty one. We have
Speaker 2: fought about thirty six wars since then, none of which
Speaker 2: had been authorized by Congress, all of which had been
Speaker 2: paid by Congress. Congress is the culprit here. It will
Speaker 2: get damn it.
Speaker 1: We're plagued with problems here. There we are yeah, my proagies.
Speaker 2: I can call you on the phone, or we can
Speaker 2: give up the ghost until next week. After I get
Speaker 2: about thirty words out of my mouth, I get a
Speaker 2: sign saying reload.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. Since we are pretty much
Speaker 1: out of our regular scheduled time and I got another
Speaker 1: guest after you, we'll just we can revisit this topic
Speaker 1: next week. It's an extremely important one, and I was
Speaker 1: really anxious to hear your comments about the War Powers resolution,
Speaker 1: because although you are right, the Constitution does not allow
Speaker 1: giving away core functions or delegating them. I don't know
Speaker 1: that that has ever been specifically challenged in court, the
Speaker 1: War Powers Resolution.
Speaker 2: It is not. And there's only two members of Congress
Speaker 2: who understand this, Rand Paul and Thomas Messy.
Speaker 1: Well, perhaps someday they will visit that. And I think
Speaker 1: you and I know what the logical outcome is, given
Speaker 1: Supreme Court precedent that it is unconstitutional. Well, Judgement Palatona,
Speaker 1: I obviously missed our segment today. We will hit the
Speaker 1: ground running next Tuesday, and I'll wish you the happiest
Speaker 1: and best of weeks.
Speaker 2: Maybe, yes, Trekker will let me on a.
Speaker 1: You can't even conclude ready, and we don't even get
Speaker 1: to aim and fire. Folks, don't go away. We're gonna
Speaker 1: hear from Michael McNamara his book, From Trauma to Joy.
Speaker 1: He'll join the program next. Really a great book for
Speaker 1: folks stuffering with trauma. Whether or not it's post traumatic
Speaker 1: stress is a consequence of combat and being in a war.
Speaker 1: But anyone out there who's struggling with trauma, it's got
Speaker 1: a great book to talk about with Michael McNamara. That'll
Speaker 1: be next fifty five KRC, the Talk Station