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"Under the War Powers Act of 1973, the administration must notify Congress within 48 hours of introducing troops into a conflict. Secretary of State Rubio did that," Congressional correspondent Lisa Desjardins said. "Now, the War Powers Act also says that presidents can only continue that conflict for 60 to...

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He’s manhandling the media. Secretary Rubio makes a reporter look foolish after being asked why the administration didn’t notify Congress prior to the strikes on Iran. REPORTER: “Why not notify Congress ahead of this?” RUBIO: “We did.” “We notified Congress. We notified the gang of eight, we notified Congressional leadership.” “There’s no law that requires us to do that. The law says we have to notify them 48 hours after beginning hostilities, we’ve done that. I think the notification went today.” “But we did notify members of Congress in advance, but we can’t notify 535 members of Congress.” “Congress can vote on whatever they want, but there’s no law that requires us to do that.” “And I want to say something, because I see people on TV — looks like that’s fine if they want to take the War Powers vote, they can do that. They’ve done that a bunch of times.” “But people keep saying that we have some law — there is NO law that requires the president to have done anything with regards to this.” “To begin with, no president, presidential administration has ever accepted that the War Powers Act is constitutional, not Republican presidents or Democratic presidents.” Then Rubio landed the haymaker: “That said, we have followed the notification of 48 hours, we are here today — I have done more gang of eight briefings than I got in the four years that Biden and I were members of the gang of eight.” “All of that said, we have complied with the law 100% and we’re going to continue to comply with it.”

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