00:00In the 250 years of our American Republic, no Secretary of War or Secretary of Defense
00:06has ever been impeached for carrying out lawful military operations.
00:12And in our case, successful ones at that.
00:17Not once.
00:19War powers resolution or not.
00:21Not under Reagan in Lebanon, not under Clinton in Kosovo,
00:25not under Obama in Iraq and Syria, not under Biden in Iraq.
00:30That's what it is. Policy disagreements, not high crimes, not misdemeanors, not treason, not bribery,
00:38not the kinds of offenses the founders intended when they wrote the impeachment clause.
00:42The proper remedy for a policy disagreement, it's legislation.
00:47It's debate. It's the next presidential election.
00:51It's not handing the House and Senate floor to the Democrats so that they can run a show trial
00:57against the President and the Secretary of War while Republicans still control Congress
01:02and should be delivering wins for the American people.
01:05Than one or two that wouldn't be doing, for many people.
01:06Of course, we'll see that.
01:06So making sure that we have a balanced balance in terms of applications,