Ro Khanna on MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell discussing the war in Iran
Ro Khanna on MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell discussing the war in Iran
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Joining
us now is the Democratic Congressman Ro Kanov of California. He's a
member of the House Oversight and Armed Services Committee and along
with Republican Congressman Thomas Massie0:07
7 seconds
pushed the measure to stop Donald Trump's war, which didn't pass but came awful close. U it perplexes me,0:14
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Congressman. Um you were not we're not debating whether or not Donald Trump should go to whether America should go0:21
21 seconds
to
war in Iran. That's a that's a valid discussion that people can have
and you in Congress should be having. We're you you're you're asking for
Donald Trump to be accountable to Congress as the0:30
30 seconds
Constitution
requires that if you want to go to war, you need to make the case and
convince Congress that you go to war. You don't get to do this on your
own.0:38
38 seconds
Yes. and uh all Democrats but four stood together to affirm article one that Donald Trump can't be getting us into an0:46
46 seconds
endless war costing over a billion dollars a day costing American lives without asking the American people for0:54
54 seconds
their support without asking Congress for authorization. But I was so offended by the clip you played with Peter Heget,1:00
1 minute
the Secretary of War, saying that these are politically correct uh ways that we fought in the past. You know what it's1:07
1 minute, 7 seconds
led to his thinking? It's led to arguably a strike that killed 1701:14
1 minute, 14 seconds
Iranian
girls. The military is saying that we may have done that. And that's
because Pete Hexet thinks that protecting civilian lives overseas is1:23
1 minute, 23 seconds
politically
correct. You know what? I believe that an Iranian life has as much
dignity as an American life. It's a human being. And to have that kind
of1:32
1 minute, 32 seconds
callousness is uh not only contrary to every fate tradition, it's a contrary to the founding principles of this country.1:40
1 minute, 40 seconds
Shame on Pete Heg said for talking about Iranian girls uh as if they're politically correct pawns. Yeah. I would1:47
1 minute, 47 seconds
just
like to have not illegal wars. I I mean it's not clear that this is a
legal war to start with. Forget forget politically correct. Why why are
we doing this? Why are we at war with Iran?1:54
1 minute, 54 seconds
What is the explanation given to American people about why this is in the national interest?2:00
2 minutes
Well,
there is no explanation. They uh first said we want to change the
regimes. Now they're saying they don't even think they can achieve a
regime2:08
2 minutes, 8 seconds
change.
They have no sense of uh there being an imminent threat to the United
States. In fact, Donald Trump is acknowledging that the threat to people2:17
2 minutes, 17 seconds
here
in the United States is because he launched this war. That is chilling.
If you're living at home in a suburban community, Donald Trump is
saying you2:24
2 minutes, 24 seconds
may die because Iran may retaliate here in the United States. He's literally made people's lives less safe. And he's2:32
2 minutes, 32 seconds
saying, "Oh, well, that's what happens when you go to war." And for what? This is the most uh egregious foreign policy2:41
2 minutes, 41 seconds
blunder since the Iraq war. And the American people are waking up to that.2:45
2 minutes, 45 seconds
And the Republicans now own it because almost the entire Democratic party said,2:50
2 minutes, 50 seconds
"We're against these endless wars. We want to be spending on schools and hospitals and jobs
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