Humiliating： Why Trump is first POTUS to ever lose war vote

What has become a series of Trump setbacks today. Republicans say the president has been hurting his party's midterms chances. And that's a complaint that obviously is often lodged in private or these sort of blind quotes as they call them. But it burst into a direct confrontation today with Republican Bill Cassidy yelling, that's the word we're told, yelling to President Trump to his face about the faulty war, the tenuous Iran deal, retiring senator recounting his side today. I stood and said, you have not told the American people what's going on. There's supposed to last four weeks, this last four months, our original objectives have not been achieved. He did not particularly care for my comments, raised his voice. I lost my temper. I made it clear that I wasn't gonna be bullied and made it clear that I think we need answers. So you have, according to that account, two people yelling at each other. We would have to amend Senator Cassidy's statement that he wasn't going to be bullied. I think an English teacher would say, well, if you want to be accurate, the full sentence is I'm not going to be bullied by Trump anymore. Because like a lot of Republicans, his word, they've been bullied a ton. And that was the scene of what was a rare visit by Trump to go meet with Senate Republicans in the group. And Trump was also, according to reporting, reduced to asking for more help from Republican leader Thune amid setbacks. Remember, Trump just lost that big Senate War Powers vote with Republicans turning on it. And that was coming after he had squeaked by in prior votes. So if you're counting this as momentum, he's losing it. The anti-Trump vote there was a huge deal. It shows the national opposition to Trump's Iran war, as well as high gas prices landing in the Senate. This was the scene, as you see there, him losing the vote. Now this shaky peace deal could leave the U.S., according to experts and now some Republicans, on a worse footing than before Trump started the war. So he's reeling from a rejection by a Congress run by his party. You know, you can go all the way back to Vietnam, where the opposition actually took many, many more years to build to this level, to find this kind of united opposition. And I say that as a reference point, because sometimes people think, well, is Trump getting away with everything? Or it all seems to just kind of happen and not matter. But it's actually quite the opposite. In ways we can measure, this is higher, faster opposition than other presidents have faced. Now, back then, it was Vietnam, you may recall, that led Congress to pass this new law, which was at least going to try to prevent future unilateral wars from running away from the American people by just a president, because the power to declare war in our constitutional system is supposed to actually be with Congress, although that has been, of course, circumvented many times, long before Donald Trump. But here's what I can tell you. Right now, Donald Trump is actually the first president since that Vietnam era law passed to ever actually see both houses of Congress use the War Powers Act to reject him as commander-in-chief, to reject what he's doing abroad with, again, your tax dollars, your military, and of course, if you're in a military household, what he's sending young men and women to go off and fight. No other president has seen this kind of opposition on record in the Congress to their ability to be commander-in-chief, and this has happened despite his party controlling the Congress. Here's how the New York Times reported it. Trump's loss in this week's vote is the first time in the enactment of the War Powers Resolution of 73 that both chambers of Congress have approved a resolution directing a president to end a military conflict. The Times reported that the House passed the measure earlier this month after Republican leaders who tried to block it basically failed and were, quote, unable to keep the party unified. You can say that again. Those setbacks in a Congress that we're told is so partisan or so under Trump's thumb, those setbacks are on the biggest issue, and if you follow Republican politics, if you follow conservative-leading podcasts, and you don't have to, we'll follow it for you and update you on the key takeaways, the headlines. This issue and Epstein, the Iran issue and Epstein, have split this party unlike anything else in the last two years of this Trump second term. Let's start with what is a historic rejection of the president's exercise of his commander-in-chief powers. You were in the body where that occurred. How did that happen? How did we get here? Does it matter? Well, I think it's an important inflection point. We have watched this Congress, under the leadership of Republicans, give over its power time and time again, confirming people who are egregiously unqualified for office, the likes of Pete Exet, you know, Robert F. Kennedy. And then Trump dragged us into an illegal war of choice. We kept hearing different explanations for why we were there every day, and we committed as Democrats that we were going to hold our Republican colleagues accountable. We held vote after vote after vote. I sponsored one last week, which was narrowly defeated. And finally, this week, we had the votes necessary with just enough Republicans to hold this president accountable.