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From our Washington, D.C. studios, welcome to “Balance of Power,” to our TV and radio listeners around the world. Kelly: Breaking news in Washington, House ready for voteNow on war powers resolution that would limit the president's military strike on Iran.
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The administration appears to be giving up its $1.8 billion in arms control funds. The president may have suspected it moments ago. Eric Wasson joins live from Capitol Hill and Catherine Lucey from White House North One.
Wasson on war powers vote near the House Sirek, this war powers vote could happen at any moment.
Sirek: It looks like it will pass, but maybe because of the GOP's absence.
It's not a major departure from the president, but still a symbolic rebuke and that lawmakers are getting fed up with the president's Iran behavior.
We will also look at the Ukraine funding vote as we hope moderate Republicans will cross party lines and send a.
Message to the President He needs to give this country more funding to benefit the war in Ukraine
Russia. Joe: The arms bill has also been put on ice here. When you combine that with that. The ballroom is getting out of the reconciliation bill, it appears the path is set for its passage.
Does John Thune have the votes?
Eric: Of course it is a real sign of Trump's power on Capitol Hill.The Representation Fund, $1.8 billion, Democrats call it the slush fund, to pay people they believe were targeted by the Biden Justice Department. Acting Attorney General ToddBlanch said he is not moving forward with the fund.
There will still be an amendment -- an attempt to introduce the notion of an amendment to the bill to prevent this fund from ever being welcomed.
There will still be an amendment -- an attempt to introduce the notion of an amendment to the bill to prevent this fund from ever being welcomed.
Thom Tillis and Bill Cassidy, soon to be ousted, are on board with it. It may not pass the required 60
votes, but it is a real sign that Republicans are starting to differ with the president and keep this volume out of the bill. He had $220 million for that.
Ballroom. Which has been pulled despite Trump saying he needs to do it.
There may be other ways for Trump allies to come forward with payments so they can sue the Justice Department.
They will sort it out through that process.
You will see Trump allies get money. KELLY: Bloomberg's Eric Wasson is reporting live from Capitol Hill. Just before we aired,
the president commented on the status of the $1.8 billion Dodge Fund that Trump's acting attorney general said yesterdaywould not go forward. Trump's words moments ago didn't seem definitive.
Chapter 3: Catherine Lucey on Trump's $1.8B DOJ Fund
Press Trump: I'll have to ask the lawyers, I don't know.
Are you talking about the weapons fund?
The weapons fund was a beautiful thing as far as I'm concerned. It was something -- I didn't.Make it, but I heard it and thought it was the greatest thing because people like you have treated our people so badly.
What's the real status?
Catherine: The president certainly wasn't terribly definitive.
He checked with the lawyers as a classic work MENT to him when he wants to deviate. He talked about how much he thought the fund was a beautiful thing.
He checked with the lawyers as a classic work MENT to him when he wants to deviate. He talked about how much he thought the fund was a beautiful thing.
He is not in lockstep with the officials who were trying to make it clear that it is gone, so we will have to wait and see.
It is clear that he likes the idea, he supports it, and continues to talk about it, even in Poland and interviews
As polling and interviews around the country suggest that voters have a lot of reservations about it. Joe: The president is making news today about Iran, certainly raising some eyebrows on Capitol Hill.
He gave a podcast interview saying that it is unlikely that the Strait of Hormuz can be closed by force.
Which drove up oil prices today and it increased a lot of questions about how the administration is approaching it diplomatically or militarily.
Do we need to do something for Labor Day?
New policy at the White House? Catherine: We'll have to wait and see.We've heard a lot of mixed signals from the White House for weeks, things are moving quickly, the president is backing down, making threats, trying to broker a settlement.When the president spoke to reporters at the White House today, he suggested something was coming soon.
She wasn't repeating the exact same language today.
It's unclear when a resolution will be coming or if it's coming.
Certainly a lot of people in his party would like to see something, especially those running for reelection.
Unfortunately, it's a wait and see. Joe: There's a lot going on right now.
Catherine Lucey, live from the North Lawn of the White House.
We spoke with Michael McCaul of Texas, the chairman emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and the House Homeland Security Committee. We talked about war powers.
The vote that is coming up on the House floor, a vote that Speaker Johnson called dangerous today.
I started by asking McCaul if he agrees.
Chapter 4: Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX)
Second Rep. McCaul: I do. We had Secretary Rubio testify about the ongoing negotiations.
I think about voting on a war powers resolution that limits the president's authority as he tries to negotiate.
The space settlement is completely undermined and taken advantage of by those negotiations. It's sick.
After the ceasefire, I could see the legitimate use of military force to authorize the president's actions, but to take that power away from him would be
dangerous. Kelly: How would you define a resumption of hostilities? We've seen the exchange of fire.
Over and over again. Someone was killed by an Iranian drone strike at an airport in Kuwait.
Is this really a ceasefire?
REP MICULL: I think you'll find out. If these talks break down.They're down and inconclusive, which I don't have much confidence in Iran -- if that happens, you'll see a very powerful salt on Iran again.
It's always better for the president to get Congress to authorize military force.
Then you have the support of the American people behind you. Right now I think so.
Sale time. We have ongoing negotiations and I think that would somehow damage those negotiations
Strip the president of his authority.
And think they'll challenge it in the courts as well. JO: You'll wonder if the president is girding for too long
Experience. He told a podcast interview
While it's unlikely that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed through Labor Day, and we've seen oil
prices start to hit that headline. Does that mean the president.
Shopping for a diplomatic solution? REP MICULL: I think it would be difficult to wait that long.
I think the president is looking for a way to declare victory and get out of this situation.
As long as the Strait of Hormuz is closed, that's not possible. I think he wants to give these peace talks a chance. I'm not optimistic myself.
Which could lead to more strikes resuming on Iran -- attacks on Iran and trying to open the strait. You have to think about that.
The backdrop of the midterm elections. When I think about the SINC we're dealing with
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