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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Here. It is your Channel Line first morning weather forecast.
It's gonna be mostly cloudy day and very humid. They're saying,
got isolated storms between noon and five, severe storms between
six pm and midnight. Today's high eighty six overnight, mostly
cloudy skies. You could see a few showers. That'll drop
to sixty nine degrees. Little more cooler tomorrow with the
high of eighty degrees. Not as humid as well, but
(00:23):
still some isolated showers as storms of possibility over Thursday night,
clear skies for the most part, sixty four for the low. Friday,
a partly clotty day, and the heat rolls in. We'll
go up to eighty seven and look at it nineties
over the weekend through Monday, seventy four degrees. Right now,
time for a traffic update, Chuck Ingram, No, we're not
going to do that. Why because Judge ed apolitanoism there.
(00:46):
Joe sent him the link. We've got the column. He
even responded to Joe's email with the link. So normally
I'm looking at him on zoom and sadly enough Judge
and Politano not there. Anyway, I can still tell you
what he wanted to talk about. Trump war in the Constitution. So,
in the absence of the Polatanom, I can give you
an advance reading of the column. As the United States
(01:08):
becoming President Trump recently condemned, can the President fight any
war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses?
Are their constitutional and legal requirements that must be met
before war is waged? These questions should be central to
debate over the US involvement in Ukraine, Gaza, in Iran. Sadly,
there has been no great debate mainstream media or mouthing
(01:28):
what CIA is telling them, and only a few websites
and podcasts are challenging the government's reckless, immoral and illegal,
unconstitutional wars. And I talked about this all morning. Here's
the backstory. All power in the federal government comes from
the Constitution and from no other source. Congress is restrained
by the Constitution and by treaties to which the US
(01:49):
is a party. Congress cannot legally declare a war on Russia, Gaza,
or Iran since there are no militarily grounded reasons for
doing so. Russia poses no threat to American national security,
persons or property, nor do Gaza or Iran. Moreover, US
is no treaty with Ukraine or Israel that triggers an
(02:10):
American military obligation. Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare
war on a nation or group. Last time it did
so was to initiate America's involvement of World War Two.
The Congress has given away limited authority to presidents and
permitted them to fight undeclared wars, such as the War
Power Resolution of nineteen seventy three in President George W.
(02:32):
Bush's invasion of Afghanistan in Iraq, which were done under
an authorization for use of military force. Congress has not
only not declared war on Russia or Gaza or Iran,
and it has not authorized use of American forces in
those countries. Yet it has given the president a blank
check and authorized him to spend it on military equipment
(02:52):
for Ukraine and Israel. However it sees fit. President Donald
Trump came into the office promising to end America's forever wars. Instead,
the United States continues to fund a war his predecessors
entered into in Ukraine, the goal of which was to
eliminate Russian troops from Ukraine and Crimea and Russian President
Vladimir Putin from office, none of these objectives is realistically obtainable.
(03:15):
In Gaza, the Israeli goal has been to remove by
death or force all Palestinians from their ancestral land. That goal,
which is morally reprehensible and militarily unfeasible, has produced more
than fifty five thousand civilian deaths, none of this to
the benefit of the United States. In Iran, the President
lulled the Iranians in believing that the United States was
seriously negotiating with them, while the US intelligence assets planned
(03:37):
and helped execute the Israeli attack on Tehran last week,
some of which murdered the negotiators. Is Iran, which US
and intelligence Israeli intelligence have concluded has no nuclear weapons,
as Israel does, the slightest threat to the US national security.
The judge right it does not. We don't know how
(03:59):
many American intelligence as officers or in Ukraine and Gaza Iran,
but we know that they are there. This is something
I've talked about with Daniel Davis before. During Trump's first
term in office, the CIA built twenty facilities for its
officers and agents across the Ukraine. We also know that
they're involved in hostilities since much of the US hardware
used against Russia and Gaza in defense of and in
(04:19):
defense of Israel, requires American know how to operate and maintain.
Are American intelligence officers killing Russian soldiers, Gaza civilians and
Iranian officials. The White House prefers not to answer. Yet
none of this has been authorized by Congress. Now back
to the Constitution. The War Powers Resolution, which requires presidential
(04:40):
notification to Congress of the use of American military force,
is unconstitutional because it consists of Congress giving away one
of its core functions declaring war. The Supreme Court is
characterized that delegating away of core functions as a volative
of the separation of powers and thus unconstitutional. However, I
gotta chime in, it has never been a Supreme Court
(05:01):
case specifically involving the War Powers Resolution doing that, although
you can certainly draw the lines from the other cases
to the same conclusion. That's my words. Back to neapolitanum
or over, the statute only applies to the militaria, does
not constrain and require reporting the use of intelligence personnel
to fight wars. Nevertheless, Trump has not informed Congress of
(05:25):
his intentions to use American troops violently. Yet he has
used the Navy, the Air Force, and the CIA to
attack civilians in Yemen at war crime, and he has
soldiers out of uniform in Ukraine so as to perpetuate
the Biden era deception that American boots are not there
on the ground. Don't be surprised if Trump gives war
(05:45):
powers Act Notice secretly to the Gang of Eight. Here's
a subset of the problem, folks. That's the Congress. Within
the Congress, consisting of the chairs and ranking members of
the House and Intelligence committees, and the Republican and Democrat
leaders of the House and Senate, with which the President
legally shares secrets. Just as Congress cannot delegate away it's
(06:06):
war making powers to the president, it can't delegate him
to the Gang of Eight. Oh there he is, Joseph Paulitano.
Are you there? His image is frozen. The Gang of
Eight is antith antithetical to the government values informing them
(06:27):
of whether or whatever violence the President is up to
is done under oath of secrecy. What kind of democracy
operates and kills in secret? Are you there, your honor?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, I am. My apologies the internet issues I kept
getting kicked out somebody in Cincinnati, not you or a streker, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And he froze up again.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh and again I'm back.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now, this is crazy. We didn't even run the Ingram
report this morning since you weren't there, so we would
be It would seem out of place if he introduces
you and you didn't show up and respond, so we'll
blame you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I was doing my best to show up, and from
what I was hearing, it sounds like you were reading or.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Paraphrasing complications arise again. I was, if you can hear me,
I was, in fact reading your column. We were going
to dress it on the fly during our communications. I
got through everything except the last basically two paragraphs, Your honor.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, well, you know it's a fascinating issue. Can the
president start a war on his own? The short answer
is no. The long answer is the list. Time Congress
declared war was December eighth, nineteen forty one. We have
fought about thirty six wars since then, none of which
had been authorized by Congress, all of which had been
(07:57):
paid by Congress. Congress is the culprit here. It will
get damn it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We're plagued with problems here. There we are yeah, my proagies.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I can call you on the phone, or we can
give up the ghost until next week. After I get
about thirty words out of my mouth, I get a
sign saying reload.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, I'll tell you what. Since we are pretty much
out of our regular scheduled time and I got another
guest after you, we'll just we can revisit this topic
next week. It's an extremely important one, and I was
really anxious to hear your comments about the War Powers resolution,
because although you are right, the Constitution does not allow
giving away core functions or delegating them. I don't know
(08:43):
that that has ever been specifically challenged in court, the
War Powers Resolution.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It is not. And there's only two members of Congress
who understand this, Rand Paul and Thomas Messy.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, perhaps someday they will visit that. And I think
you and I know what the logical outcome is, given
Supreme Court precedent that it is unconstitutional. Well, Judgement Palatona,
I obviously missed our segment today. We will hit the
ground running next Tuesday, and I'll wish you the happiest
and best of weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Maybe, yes, Trekker will let me on a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You can't even conclude ready, and we don't even get
to aim and fire. Folks, don't go away. We're gonna
hear from Michael McNamara his book, From Trauma to Joy.
He'll join the program next. Really a great book for
folks stuffering with trauma. Whether or not it's post traumatic
stress is a consequence of combat and being in a war.
(09:37):
But anyone out there who's struggling with trauma, it's got
a great book to talk about with Michael McNamara. That'll
be next fifty five KRC, the Talk Station
Here. It is your Channel Line first morning weather forecast.
It's gonna be mostly cloudy day and very humid. They're saying,
got isolated storms between noon and five, severe storms between
six pm and midnight. Today's high eighty six overnight, mostly
cloudy skies. You could see a few showers. That'll drop
to sixty nine degrees. Little more cooler tomorrow with the
high of eighty degrees. Not as humid as well, but
(00:23):
still some isolated showers as storms of possibility over Thursday night,
clear skies for the most part, sixty four for the low. Friday,
a partly clotty day, and the heat rolls in. We'll
go up to eighty seven and look at it nineties
over the weekend through Monday, seventy four degrees. Right now,
time for a traffic update, Chuck Ingram, No, we're not
going to do that. Why because Judge ed apolitanoism there.
(00:46):
Joe sent him the link. We've got the column. He
even responded to Joe's email with the link. So normally
I'm looking at him on zoom and sadly enough Judge
and Politano not there. Anyway, I can still tell you
what he wanted to talk about. Trump war in the Constitution. So,
in the absence of the Polatanom, I can give you
an advance reading of the column. As the United States
(01:08):
becoming President Trump recently condemned, can the President fight any
war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses?
Are their constitutional and legal requirements that must be met
before war is waged? These questions should be central to
debate over the US involvement in Ukraine, Gaza, in Iran. Sadly,
there has been no great debate mainstream media or mouthing
(01:28):
what CIA is telling them, and only a few websites
and podcasts are challenging the government's reckless, immoral and illegal,
unconstitutional wars. And I talked about this all morning. Here's
the backstory. All power in the federal government comes from
the Constitution and from no other source. Congress is restrained
by the Constitution and by treaties to which the US
(01:49):
is a party. Congress cannot legally declare a war on Russia, Gaza,
or Iran since there are no militarily grounded reasons for
doing so. Russia poses no threat to American national security,
persons or property, nor do Gaza or Iran. Moreover, US
is no treaty with Ukraine or Israel that triggers an
(02:10):
American military obligation. Under the Constitution, only Congress can declare
war on a nation or group. Last time it did
so was to initiate America's involvement of World War Two.
The Congress has given away limited authority to presidents and
permitted them to fight undeclared wars, such as the War
Power Resolution of nineteen seventy three in President George W.
(02:32):
Bush's invasion of Afghanistan in Iraq, which were done under
an authorization for use of military force. Congress has not
only not declared war on Russia or Gaza or Iran,
and it has not authorized use of American forces in
those countries. Yet it has given the president a blank
check and authorized him to spend it on military equipment
(02:52):
for Ukraine and Israel. However it sees fit. President Donald
Trump came into the office promising to end America's forever wars. Instead,
the United States continues to fund a war his predecessors
entered into in Ukraine, the goal of which was to
eliminate Russian troops from Ukraine and Crimea and Russian President
Vladimir Putin from office, none of these objectives is realistically obtainable.
(03:15):
In Gaza, the Israeli goal has been to remove by
death or force all Palestinians from their ancestral land. That goal,
which is morally reprehensible and militarily unfeasible, has produced more
than fifty five thousand civilian deaths, none of this to
the benefit of the United States. In Iran, the President
lulled the Iranians in believing that the United States was
seriously negotiating with them, while the US intelligence assets planned
(03:37):
and helped execute the Israeli attack on Tehran last week,
some of which murdered the negotiators. Is Iran, which US
and intelligence Israeli intelligence have concluded has no nuclear weapons,
as Israel does, the slightest threat to the US national security.
The judge right it does not. We don't know how
(03:59):
many American intelligence as officers or in Ukraine and Gaza Iran,
but we know that they are there. This is something
I've talked about with Daniel Davis before. During Trump's first
term in office, the CIA built twenty facilities for its
officers and agents across the Ukraine. We also know that
they're involved in hostilities since much of the US hardware
used against Russia and Gaza in defense of and in
(04:19):
defense of Israel, requires American know how to operate and maintain.
Are American intelligence officers killing Russian soldiers, Gaza civilians and
Iranian officials. The White House prefers not to answer. Yet
none of this has been authorized by Congress. Now back
to the Constitution. The War Powers Resolution, which requires presidential
(04:40):
notification to Congress of the use of American military force,
is unconstitutional because it consists of Congress giving away one
of its core functions declaring war. The Supreme Court is
characterized that delegating away of core functions as a volative
of the separation of powers and thus unconstitutional. However, I
gotta chime in, it has never been a Supreme Court
(05:01):
case specifically involving the War Powers Resolution doing that, although
you can certainly draw the lines from the other cases
to the same conclusion. That's my words. Back to neapolitanum
or over, the statute only applies to the militaria, does
not constrain and require reporting the use of intelligence personnel
to fight wars. Nevertheless, Trump has not informed Congress of
(05:25):
his intentions to use American troops violently. Yet he has
used the Navy, the Air Force, and the CIA to
attack civilians in Yemen at war crime, and he has
soldiers out of uniform in Ukraine so as to perpetuate
the Biden era deception that American boots are not there
on the ground. Don't be surprised if Trump gives war
(05:45):
powers Act Notice secretly to the Gang of Eight. Here's
a subset of the problem, folks. That's the Congress. Within
the Congress, consisting of the chairs and ranking members of
the House and Intelligence committees, and the Republican and Democrat
leaders of the House and Senate, with which the President
legally shares secrets. Just as Congress cannot delegate away it's
(06:06):
war making powers to the president, it can't delegate him
to the Gang of Eight. Oh there he is, Joseph Paulitano.
Are you there? His image is frozen. The Gang of
Eight is antith antithetical to the government values informing them
(06:27):
of whether or whatever violence the President is up to
is done under oath of secrecy. What kind of democracy
operates and kills in secret? Are you there, your honor?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yes, I am. My apologies the internet issues I kept
getting kicked out somebody in Cincinnati, not you or a streker, doesn't.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
And he froze up again.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Oh and again I'm back.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
Now, this is crazy. We didn't even run the Ingram
report this morning since you weren't there, so we would
be It would seem out of place if he introduces
you and you didn't show up and respond, so we'll
blame you.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
I was doing my best to show up, and from
what I was hearing, it sounds like you were reading or.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Paraphrasing complications arise again. I was, if you can hear me,
I was, in fact reading your column. We were going
to dress it on the fly during our communications. I
got through everything except the last basically two paragraphs, Your honor.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, well, you know it's a fascinating issue. Can the
president start a war on his own? The short answer
is no. The long answer is the list. Time Congress
declared war was December eighth, nineteen forty one. We have
fought about thirty six wars since then, none of which
had been authorized by Congress, all of which had been
(07:57):
paid by Congress. Congress is the culprit here. It will
get damn it.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
We're plagued with problems here. There we are yeah, my proagies.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
I can call you on the phone, or we can
give up the ghost until next week. After I get
about thirty words out of my mouth, I get a
sign saying reload.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
Well, I'll tell you what. Since we are pretty much
out of our regular scheduled time and I got another
guest after you, we'll just we can revisit this topic
next week. It's an extremely important one, and I was
really anxious to hear your comments about the War Powers resolution,
because although you are right, the Constitution does not allow
giving away core functions or delegating them. I don't know
(08:43):
that that has ever been specifically challenged in court, the
War Powers Resolution.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
It is not. And there's only two members of Congress
who understand this, Rand Paul and Thomas Messy.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Well, perhaps someday they will visit that. And I think
you and I know what the logical outcome is, given
Supreme Court precedent that it is unconstitutional. Well, Judgement Palatona,
I obviously missed our segment today. We will hit the
ground running next Tuesday, and I'll wish you the happiest
and best of weeks.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Maybe, yes, Trekker will let me on a.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
You can't even conclude ready, and we don't even get
to aim and fire. Folks, don't go away. We're gonna
hear from Michael McNamara his book, From Trauma to Joy.
He'll join the program next. Really a great book for
folks stuffering with trauma. Whether or not it's post traumatic
stress is a consequence of combat and being in a war.
(09:37):
But anyone out there who's struggling with trauma, it's got
a great book to talk about with Michael McNamara. That'll
be next fifty five KRC, the Talk Station
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