Congress never authorized military action in Iran, but the U.S. Senate today voted to limit President Trump’s Iran war powers in a rare rebuke. White House correspondent Liz Landers caught up with Senators on both sides of the aisle.Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.
Geoff Bennett:
Well, Congress never authorized the military action in Iran, but the U.S. Senate today voted to limit President Trump's Iran war powers in a rare rebuke.White House correspondent Liz Landers caught up with senators on both sides of the aisle on this issue of the Iran war and joins us now.So, Liz, what are Republicans saying about this 14-point agreement with Iran signed by the Trump administration and the ongoing talks?
Liz Landers:
Yes, so we have seen some fractures in the Republican Party on this conflict and on this agreement, and that was reflected in the conversations I had on the Hill today.I talked with Senator Thom Tillis. He's a lame-duck senator retiring at the end of this year. He's sparred with the president. And I asked him about these sanctions that were lifted yesterday by the Treasury Department. And he said that, if what Nick laid out in that piece is true, that Iran is going to buy U.S. agricultural products, he said that's fine.But he says that if the U.S. is lifting these sanctions on Iran that predate even the Obama era Iran deal, that, until that happens, the U.S. -- or until the U.S. is closer to a deal, he does not think that that's a good idea. Here's more on him being asked about whether this conflict has been worth it.
