On C-SPAN’s “Ceasefire” Friday, Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA) said the Trump administration was acting like Russian President Vladimir Putin by “killing innocents in the Caribbean.”
Host Dasha Burns said, “We’re talking about Venezuela — these strikes are part of a broader policy toward Venezuela. The President said this week that he is considering land strikes in Venezuela. They could be imminent. There’s this tension that we’ve seen play out in this first year of the administration of the executive branch versus the legislative branch, when it comes to tariffs and who does what when it comes to war and peace? Congressmen. Khanna, on Venezuela issue, how much is Congress being left to do here?:
Khanna said, “We should not go to war for regime change. I mean, the American people voted for Trump because he said he did not want regime change or endless war.”
He added, “On the question of Secretary of Defense, I would support Representative Bacon as Secretary of Defense.”
Khanna said, “Representative Bacon will take the law seriously. He understands the consequences of killing innocents in the Caribbean, which gives Xi Jinping or Putin license to say it doesn’t matter what the rules of law are or what the rules of war are. That’s not the way America does business. We’re different here. We play by the rules. That’s how Putin works, maybe that’s how Xi Jinping works. I want someone there who “I can trust, even if I disagree with them, that they will abide by the Constitution and the rule of law.”
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