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i mean, they did this with the tonkin gulf resolution to get into vietnam. but the fact that the united states has shot down iranian drones, that is a big deal. and, you know, there's an old saying up on capitol hill that you might not be able to be a little bit pregnant, but you can be a little bit at war. all right. chad pergram, nobody knows the workings of capitol hill better. chad. thank you. we're going to take a short break in our coverage of these extraordinary events of today. iran's first ever attack on the israeli on israeli land. more in just a moment. here's to getting better with age. here's to beating these two every thirsty help fuel today with boost high protein complete nutrition. you need without the stuff you don't so here's to now boost weeds. i have you surrounded. take your lawn back with scots turf builder triple action. it gets three jobs done at once. kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and keeps it growing strong. get a bag of scots triple action today. it's guaranteed. feed it. feed it. now adt professionally installs google nest prod

have relied on mostly over the past several decades, and this goes back to the thorpe kin golf -- tonkinulf resolution, aums, but also they've done just the war powers that an administration is given. the constitution kind of submits war powers in article i and article ii, and on the presidential side what they've done is used some of these old authorizations for the war in afghanistan and also for the war in iraq are. 2001 and 2002 congress -- both of these. and even though when they are in some other areas of the globe and other types of conflict, they lean on those -- [inaudible] so it's a little bit early to start looking at that. but that has to be something that's in the calculus as well, jon. jon: all right. chad pergram, chief congressional correspondent, senior is, chad, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. jon jon let's check in once again with jamil jaffer, executive director and finder at the national security institute, former associate white house counsel to president george w. bush. jamil, the iranians are said to be feeferl of a direct israeli strike on their own territory.