“How Many Have to Die?” Jasmine Crockett Confronts GOP Over Iran
“How Many Have to Die?” Jasmine Crockett Confronts GOP Over Iran
After President Trump launched strikes without congressional authorization, Crockett calls it what it is: lawlessness. In this interview, she demands Congress reclaim its constitutional authority and stop acting like spectators while lives are on the line.
Only Congress has the power to declare war. That is not a suggestion. That is the Constitution.
Crockett challenges her Republican colleagues directly: Will you stay loyal to one man, or will you stay loyal to your oath? She calls on Speaker Johnson to bring members back immediately and take up a War Powers resolution before more American lives are put at risk.
This isn’t about party. It’s about power, accountability, and whether we still believe in checks and balances.
How many have to die before Congress does its job?
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Joining me now is the Democratic Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas.0:06
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She's
a member of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committee. She's running
for the Democratic primary in the uh for the Senate in Texas, which is
why we uh0:14
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we
had booked you to be on our show and we always appreciate your time,
although uh the news has overtaken that story for the moment. So I want
to get your view0:21
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largely
as a member of Congress because um we have had wars in that part of the
world that have ended up being a real cause of of loss of blood and
treasure.0:31
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Uh
you can we can have a debate about whether we should be having a war
with Iran and we don't really have much of a debate about whether the
Iranian uh0:39
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regime is a bad regime. But Congress was not asked about this. No, we were not. And that's the problem.0:48
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You
know, there are people that will land on all sides of this conflict and
what should be happening or shouldn't be happening. But the one thing
that I want to remind the American people of is that0:56
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we have a constitution. And frankly, as members of Congress, we swore an oath to the Constitution as well as the1:03
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president. And right now, what we are clearly witnessing is lawlessness yet again from this administration. And my1:11
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question to my colleagues in a very serious way is will you put aside your loyalty to this orange man and actually1:20
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focus on your loyalty and your oath to the Constitution which says that only Congress has the power to declare war.1:27
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It is time to reign him in in a bipartisan way.1:30
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I
I'm And do you think that that kind of bipartisan support exists?
There's actually a lot more bipartisan support recently in Congress than
we had grown1:38
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to
expect over the course of the last year. uh whether or not this is
about approving a war, it's fundamentally about uh Congress asserting
its role as1:46
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the the the branch of government that is con constitutionally allowed to determine whether war occurs.1:53
1 minute, 53 seconds
That's exactly right. And listen, Thomas Massie and Roana have been working together quite often um on bipartisan2:02
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legislation,
including the Epstein files. Um, and so they do have a war powers
resolution that they have been working on together. Um, and I do know2:11
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that
Roana has made it clear that he wants to bring that to the floor on
Monday. Um, my question to Speaker Johnson is how many people are going
to2:20
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have to die because this president just decided that he was going to do whatever he wanted to and to um, ignore our2:27
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congressional
authority and our congressional powers. I don't think that we should
wait till Monday. And this is being said as someone who literally has2:35
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an
election on Tuesday. I've got to make sure that I am doing what I swore
an oath to do as a sitting member of the house. And I think Speaker
Johnson needs2:43
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to call us in right now. And we need to deal with this right now.2:47
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The
authorization for the use of military uh force which was passed in 2001
in the wake of uh 9/11 has been sort of stretched and extended largely2:56
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allowing
the president certain powers as it relates to certain terrorist groups
uh named terrorist groups. It didn't name ISIS but it's been legally
thought3:04
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to
understand ISIS. It does not extend to the uh Iranian regime. Whatever
one thinks of the Iranian regime, you're a lawyer. uh at some point if
the3:12
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administration
wants to make a case about why it should be why America should be
bombing Iran um there are lots of places to make that case. I am I I do3:20
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want to remind people the president has not gone to Congress asking for an AUMF.3:24
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This is not even a debate technically that has happened in Congress.3:29
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That's correct. I mean you know and and here's the thing. I was concerned when he went into Venezuela because I said3:36
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that
because of the cowardice of our Republican colleagues, this was going
to give a permission structure for bad behavior. And that's exactly what
we've3:44
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seen.
Now, we know that he's been flirting with this. In fact, it was last
weekend that I thought that he probably was going to do this because he
has a3:52
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history of doing this right on the weekend when we're not in when we can't ask questions immediately and demand a3:59
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briefing
immediately. And so it is understandable that people have whatever
issues that they have with Maduro. Just like you've stated, people have
whatever4:08
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issues they have with the uh regime that is in control over in the Middle East.4:12
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But the the problem that we have is that you are not following the law. Like that's the issue. If you feel as if you4:19
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have
everything that you need to actually engage in these types of actions,
then why is it that you aren't coming to Congress? That is the big4:27
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question.
And my argument is that because you know it's not you know that you
don't have the legal authority when you go out on your social media
platform4:35
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and
you say things like well they interfered with the election. That is not
a reason to go and drop bombs and kill people and risk the lives of the4:43
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people that have sworn an oath to protect this country. Right now people's sons, daughters, aunts, uncles, mothers,4:50
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and fathers may end up being thrust into a war because of his maniacal issues as relates to an election. at the same time4:57
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that he is flirting with us not even having elections.5:02
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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, thank you for your time this morning. Again,5:04
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I'm sorry I wanted to talk to you about Texas. Uh hopefully you and I will have a chance to talk again before Tuesday.5:09
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Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett of Texas is a contender for the Democratic nomination
in Texas. That primary is being held on Tuesday and of course5:17
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we'll have special coverage of
Rep. Jasmine Crockett
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