Raqaa who has been at the forefront of the issue and Jack Goldsmith senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at stanford which means he has to decent educational institutions covered. And jay and its always great to see jane. We see jane in the cnn green room but also the field as well. Senator kaine i wonder if i can begin with you. This is an issue that splits both parties and you see the president now oddly presenting pursuing aumf as an olive branch to their site but knowing there some gop that might be more forwardleaning that members of his own party. I wonder in the current environment if we can look at this issue as one where theres a potential for bipartisan agreement, to give some definition whether before or ideally as you say during the lameduck session but perhaps after as well. I look at the split in both parties not as a negative but as a positive. So many things up on the hill get divided into partisan camps and this clearly is not partisan. Im Foreign Relations committe
Defending every attack doesnt seem smart. Cant we go on offense . And he said, when i go beyond the line of defense, i cant do that without the sanction of congress. So it was very clear initially from the beginning that a president could defend against imminent attack without congress, although you should get congress on board later. Congress though had to declare war, any going on offense against anyone other than imminent defense, took a congressional declaration. That was the clear understanding. But we have gotten it wrong virtually sense the ink was dry. It doesnt matter whether president s or congresss or republican or democrat or wig or federalist, we have gotten it wrong. We have gotten it wrong because madison was half right but he want cynical enough. Madison described the provision of the war powers provisions as a check against executive power. The branch most prone po war, most interested in it. We put it in the legislative branch. He saw monarchs and executives overreach
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