00:00Every day this disastrous war continues, Donald Trump digs himself deeper and deeper and deeper
00:07into a hole.
00:08The longer Trump waits to extricate himself from Iran, the deeper the hole gets and the
00:15harder it will be for him to get out.
00:19The Iranian regime is trying to negotiate, the Iranian regime that the U.S. is trying
00:27to negotiate with is even more hardline than when Trump began the war.
00:33Iran's hold over Hormuz has gotten even stronger.
00:37Iran maintains its economic stranglehold on the world, firing on more merchant ships in
00:43the Straits of Hormuz earlier today.
00:47So it's amazing.
00:49Before the war, the regime in Iran, bad as it was, was not as dug in as this one is,
00:55making
00:56it even harder to negotiate.
00:59Before the war, oil was flowing freely out of the Strait of Hormuz.
01:03Now it's all clogged up.
01:06Everything Trump did with this war has made things worse.
01:11And he keeps digging himself into this hole, deeper and deeper.
01:16The American people are fed up, seeing this war as reckless, as harmful, and as costly,
01:24a misadventure as there has ever been.
01:27Trump's continued enthusiasm for the war makes me wonder.
01:31Has he somehow mixed up the graphs showing his crumbling approving raddles with those
01:36showing the soaring price of oil and gas?
01:40Let's sort it out for him.
01:42Trump's approval rating is at an all-time low.
01:45Only 33% approve of him in the most recent polls.
01:52Trump's approval on the economy is even lower, at 30%.
01:56In part, because the price of oil and gas has gone up and up and up.
02:04Trump's standing in the eyes of the American people craters every day that this war continues.
02:10Meanwhile, gas has been over $4 a gallon for weeks, the highest it's been in years.
02:16Americans are going to pay at least $740 more this year to fill up their tanks.
02:22Because of Trump's war, that's money that could have gone to other things.
02:26More groceries, some furniture, who knows?
02:29But it's now going into the hands of the oil merchants.
02:36Every day, we hear new promises from the Trump administration that victory's been achieved.
02:41Victory's just around the corner, he keeps saying.
02:45But when you look around the corner, that hasn't happened.
02:49Trump says peace is at hand.
02:51Costs are starting to come down.
02:53Both lies.
02:54And every day, we see the opposite.
02:56Trump can talk all he wants, but nothing will change, nothing, until he realizes this war has to end.
03:08While I'm relieved that the ceasefire deadline has been extended, Congress needs to seize this opportunity to stop this blunder
03:15before the fighting resumes.
03:17I urge Senate Republicans to vote for our war powers resolution later today.
03:24That's their fifth opportunity to do so.
03:27Republicans, if Trump won't dig himself out of the hole he's dug, you Republicans should pull him out by voting
03:37for our war powers resolution today.
03:40If not, you Republicans in the Senate are going to fall into the same hole, you're already falling into it.
03:48But if you don't dig him out of the hole, you're going to fall into this hole deeper and deeper
03:53alongside him.
03:55I thank Senator Baldwin for her work on this resolution.
04:00Democrats will continue to force votes on our resolution every week until Republicans see reason and help us end this
04:10war.
04:11They would be doing Donald Trump a favor.
04:14Republican senators would be doing Donald Trump a favor by supporting this resolution.
04:19And every week Republicans wait to do so will cost their party politically and the American people financially.
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