00:00I want to ask about what Speaker Johnson said this morning that the War Powers Act may not be constitutional.
00:08Peter Johnson or Mike Johnson?
00:10Oh, Speaker Johnson.
00:11I'm going to say Peter Johnson.
00:12I guess Peter Johnson.
00:13Speaker Johnson.
00:17What is constitutional is what is written in the Constitution, and it says only Congress.
00:22Congress has the exclusive right, Art 1, Section 8, Clause 11, to declare war.
00:27So if he wants to talk about the Constitution, he should read it, and then if he wants to discuss with us why he thinks that Congress shouldn't be involved with this, the Federalist Papers were very clear.
00:37Madison wrote that the executive branch is the branch of government most prone to war before the Constitution, with studied care, vested that power in the legislature.
00:48This was a big discussion among the founding fathers.
00:50They were tired of chronically being at war.
00:53They knew that Europe was always fighting each other.
00:55England was always fighting France.
00:56You had 100-year wars.
00:58You had 40-year wars.
00:59We didn't want that.
01:00We wanted to make war less easy to happen.
01:03We gave that power to Congress, and they've been ignoring that.
01:06But I think the Speaker needs to review the Constitution, and I think there's a lot of evidence that the founding fathers did not want presidents to unilaterally go to war.
