with the Senate voting right now on the
toll war powers restrictions on the
president I did States and it looks for
the president like it could be
problematic to Liberty file host Fox
Nation judge entered appellate on Oh
what do you make of is what's at stake
here well this is a bipartisan effort by
both the House of Representatives and
the Senate to tell the president a under
the Constitution we declare war be under
the Constitution you wage war see you
may only wage war where we declare war
unless somebody is imminently about to
attack us what was the genesis of this I
believe it was the assassination of
general Soleimani however senator Tim
Kaine who's the Democratic force behind
this in the Senate has been talking
about repealing the authorization to use
military force of 2002 which is the
language that the president relied on to
go into Iraq and kill an Iranian general
he's been talking about this for a
couple of years but now he has as we
know since the vote past sufficient
numbers in both houses now the president
president won't sign this right so they
could have added this to the Defense
Authorization Act in which case the
president would not have been able to
veto it without shutting down the but
they didn't this is a standalone
litigation part of Mitch McConnell's way
of saying okay most of the Congress is
against you but come and veto this
McConnell and the bulk of Republicans
are of the view that the president
should be able to engage in pinprick
strikes whenever and wherever he wants
the more libertarian Republicans and the
bulk of Democrats are of the view he
can't do that because the Constitution
doesn't authorize him to do it that's
for both parties over decades right
Barack Obama declared war on Libya and
bombed Libya resulted in Muammar
Qaddafi's horrific public assassination
while the Congress was on spring break
remember the Congress gives itself a
spring break but when they came back
from Spring Break they didn't do
anything to undo it because Congress
doesn't want to take the heat if if the
war prevails they'll say ah we didn't
interfere if the war fails is it's the
president's fault
so Congress often looks the other way
when presidents do these things the
targeting of general Soleimani I think
because it was in another country with
which we are profoundly not at war Iraq
our ally felt this was too much and in
this case they've said that part of
their strategy were going after him was
that he was planning more attacks but
apparently in the intelligence briefings
there was no proof or indication of that
correct
be that as it may where does this go
with this president future presidents
presidents are going to do what they're
going to do yes I mean unless there is a
Ron Paul type person right in the White
House
presidents are going to do what they
want to do and quite frankly most
presidents like war even these pin
pricks because when when the person who
is pin pricked is horrific and unpopular
and perceived as a danger the
president's approval ratings go up
irrespective of the law and morality his
approval ratings go up real quick you
know the other Democratic candidates
busy right now as they realign
themselves but to a man or woman with
exception of Amy Klobuchar I believe
they're there they're looking at wealth
taxes in other words beyond just raising
taxes targeting income above a certain
level use its opinion to me and up to 5
min and then putting a surtax on well
they can raise rates the Supreme Court
has said the courts will not get
involved in deciding what the tax rates
are but if they seize wealth at one
point Elizabeth Warren I don't think
she's there now was talking about if you
have X dollars in assets we can seize Y
percent of that that would clearly be
violative of the fifth amendment that
prohibits the government from seizing
property without paying for it a lot of
those assets can move again a lot of
those that's that's good so they could
move it around you know in a heartbeat
yeah so I don't know where this is going
to go I don't know who's good Emma
Craddock nominee is going to be very
popular on the stump yes it is yeah look
at Bernie Sanders a socialist
where's Casper Reno soak the rich no
they just want you judge they just want
you manages to tick off both sides so to
show you there