مراسل يسأل وزير الخارجية الأميركي عن الحصول على موافقة الكونغرس من أجل شن ضربات برية في فنزويلا
Congressional approval on land strikes. Do you think that the United States does need to go to Congress uh in order to conduct land strikes in Venezuela? >> Well, look, I’m not going to speculate about things that that you know haven’t happened and may never happen. I’m not going to speculate on that. All I’m going to tell you is that two things, and I remind Congress all the time, by the way, I was very consistent on this position because it was my position when I was in the Senate. Number one, no administration, Republican or Democrat, has ever accepted the War Powers Act as being constitutional. That said, multiple administrations, including this one, have sought congressional approval andor certainly congressional notification of actions taken. Why? Because American action is always strongest when it has the buy in and the participation of a broad set of actors. Now, given our current political climate, that’s not always easy. Because we do have people today in politics that are against everything that President Trump is for. It doesn’t matter what it is. It doesn’t matter if they themselves had the same position. If it’s President Trump’s idea, they’re against it reflexively. Okay? That’s the nature of the current climate in our politics. But I can tell you that to this point, nothing has happened that requires us to notify Congress or get congressional approval or cross the threshold in the war. We have very strong legal opinions. We have now briefed Capitol Hill 23 times. 23 briefings, bipartisan briefings on Capitol Hill. I have personally participated in six of those 23 at the highest levels of the committee but then the full house and then the full senate.
