a loophole allowing the president to approve the sale without the approval of congress with a proposal emerged publicly when democrat senator christopher s. murphy criticized it on twitter i am hearing that trump may use an obscure loophole in the arms control act and notice a major new sale of bombs to saudi arabia once they drop in yemen in a way that will prevent congress from objecting could happen this week he tweeted let's go live now to washington more on this al-jazeera as alan fischer is following developments these are 2 the saudis were previously put on hold why does it look like they they could be going ahead again that all of. us laws says that if you're going to go ahead with foreign arm sales you've got to give congress 30 days notice in that time congress can see ye or ne no you can sidestep that and it looks as if that's the move this being considered by donald trump being pushed by might pompey or his secretary of state if you didn't clear the weapons sales and...