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Jack Armstrong (0:00)
This is an iHeart podcast, guaranteed human
Joe Getty (0:06)
broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty. Armstrong and Getty.
Jack Armstrong (0:16)
And now here's Armstrong and Getty. The new Supreme Leader has made his first statement since being named Ayatollah Tola. Have that next.
Joe Getty (0:33)
But first, we give you Bill Maher talking to Adam Schiff. This statement from the administration. The president had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest. That's too vague for you.
Jack Armstrong (0:50)
Totally vague.
Joe Getty (0:51)
Okay. Because that's from Obama about Libya.
Jack Armstrong (0:54)
Well, Obama made the argument initially that he could go into Syria without an authorization. I and many others pushed back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress. But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren't going to go forward.
Joe Getty (1:22)
Okay. He's a weasel, a talking weasel. That's really our headline, ladies and gentlemen. Trainers or scientists have taught a weasel to speak.
Jack Armstrong (1:32)
That's a pretty good move by Bill Maher, I thought, though. Sure.
Joe Getty (1:35)
Yeah. Yeah. Well, and then Schiff's argument not to dwell on it too long because he's a lying piece of garbage, but that
Jack Armstrong (1:42)
got the smallest, thinnest neck I've ever seen.
Joe Getty (1:44)
It ended up being a good thing that Obama promised a red line and then destroyed American deterrence for a couple of decades because he would have lost a vote in Congress.
Jack Armstrong (1:54)
Well, it's a complicated thing, though, and that's a problem we've got right now and why presidents aren't going to Congress. If Trump had gone to Congress, it might not have passed. And then, so you've got the president and the people around him who firmly believe this is a necessary thing for the United States to do for our world safety, our own safety, and for the safety of the world. And Congress, because they're all a bunch of freaking cowards, I think, said no. So I guess we'll just let them get a nuclear weapon eventually or continue to harass the world or whatever. And Obama did decide, okay, we'll put it to a vote, find out that it was gonna lose, and so didn't enforce his own red line, which the Commander in chief. So the commander in Chief can't make red lines anymore without going to Congress first, I guess.