"Bill O'Reilly and Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall went at it on Thursday over President Donald Trump routinely forgoing congressional approval. The U.S. incursion into Venezuela and subsequent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has been the subject of intense scrutiny. Critics of the move have called out Trump for going ahead with the operation without first seeking congressional approval. In a Monday column, Hall cited Trump's actions and described a sense that guardrails once assumed to be firm are no longer holding."
"And honestly, previously what you just said, you just basically said Trump doesn't want to take Madura to Congress because he knows he won't get what he wants. I'm sorry, you don't get to pick and choose what the Constitution says O'REILLY: You do if you have national security concerns behind you! Yes, you do! HALL: Yeah, but that's very subjective, and to say that there was a national security threat by Maduro, I think is hyperbole at best. I think it's absurd."
President Donald Trump ordered a U.S. incursion into Venezuela that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro without first obtaining congressional approval. Critics argued the operation represented executive overreach and a bypassing of constitutional constraints; Colby Hall characterized the actions as a textbook example of overreach and warned that guardrails once assumed firm are eroding. Bill O'Reilly defended the decision as justified when national security is at stake and suggested Trump would not have obtained congressional approval for the mission. Senate Republicans later blocked a measure that would have required presidential approval for further action in Venezuela.
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