ultimate decision to do this. because what we really believe is that this part, as he mentioned in the press conference, this is about a campaign. this is about keeping this issue alive so that he can claim he s fighting to secure the border and nobody else will do it and no one else wants to get it done but him. he s going to continue with this narrative. he wants this fight because he thinks it s politically advantageous, but it s dangerous to allow the president of the united states to circumvent the will of congress, the rule of law in this country, the separation of powers and just decide that he thinks this is important, this policy disagreement, and he s going to go ahead without congressional authorization, undermines rule of law in this country, undermines democracy. the judiciary committee is going to have a full investigation of this so that we can let the american people see what s really happened here. congressman, thank you for joining me tonight. all right. let s bri
to reallocate funds. we want to understand kind of how the president came to this decision, what influenced his ultimate decision to do this. because what we really believe is that this part, as he mentioned in the press conference, this is about a campaign. this is about keeping this issue alive so that he can claim he s fighting to secure the border and nobody else will do it and no one else wants to get it done but him. he s going to continue with this narrative. he wants this fight because he thinks it s politically advantageous, but it s dangerous to allow the president of the united states to circumvent the will of congress, the rule of law in this country, the separation of powers and just decide that he thinks this is important, this policy disagreement, and he s going to go ahead without congressional authorization, undermines rule of law in this country, undermines democracy. the judiciary committee is going to have a full investigation of this so that we can let the american
and talk about this withdrawal of the united states from the imf treaty. you set on the foreign relations committee. your thoughts about this idea of withdrawing the u.s. the russians say not only are they too going to withdraw but restart their missile programs. nuclear weapons and nuclear treaties can be complicated but there is one very simple truth and that is this, no one wins in nuclear war. the u.s. withdrawing from the inf treaty was a bad idea and i ve introduced ledggislation fm senator mark ki from launching a nuclear strike without getting congressional authorization. congress needs to exert its rule role in a forceful way with donald trump in office. i want to give you an opportunity to weigh in, prominent democrats calling on ralph northam the governor of virginia to resign, what are your thoughts? governor northam must resign. that picture in his yearbook is completely indefensible and it is incredibly racist and i know
enough to even pass this one measure, to hold russia accountable when president trump wants to unwind sanctions that are absolutely necessary, i ve not seen their strength and courage to stand up to the president when it matters and when it counts. and i was exceedingly disappointed that there weren t enough republicans to actually pass this very simple measure. when you ran in your upstate new york district in 2006, you ran as an opponent of the iraq war. yeah. in a fairly conservative district. today we saw four americans killed in syria. i know that you have criticized this administration for acting in syria without congressional authorization. i wonder if either today s bombing or the situation in syria more broadly has affected your overall view about whether or not we should have troops there at all. i don t believe the president has the authority to have the troops there. we don t have a aumf to have combat operations in syria. and i know the president will say oh, well
when you ran in your upstate new york district in 2006, you ran as an opponent of the iraq war. yeah. in a fairly conservative district. today we saw four americans killed in syria. i know that you have criticized this administration for acting in syria without congressional authorization. i wonder if either today s bombing or the situation in syria more broadly has affected your overall view about whether or not we should have troops there at all. well, i don t believe the president has the authority to have the troops there. we don t have a aumf to have combat operations in syria. and i know the president will say oh, well they re not in combat operations, but people are dying. i think we should be drawing down our troops, not only in afghanistan but the remainder in iraq and in syria and then give congress the opportunity that if they believe we should be in combat missions in any of these countries that we actually file a new authorization for the use of military force. wha