WATCH: Rand Paul Cites Justin Trudeau’s Handling Of Trucker Protests To Warn Of Unchecked Power

we are currently considering the defense authorization Bill we have considered this most years uh annually for for many decades typically though we’ll have a robust debate we’ll have amendments offered and we’ll try to have participation by senators from all over the United States geographically represented in the debate that won’t happen this year there will be uh no debate it’ll be very controlled and circumscribed and there won’t be amendments this is dis appointing to me because I think there are some very important issues that need to be brought up and one of those is emergency Powers our founding fathers understood that it was very important to divide these powers between the Executive Branch the legislative branch and the Judiciary over the past hundred years though we’ve had a gradual evolution of these Powers towards the executive branch and we now have a very very strong executive branch that in all in many ways is able to control the narrative and ultimately to control the country in the 1970s uh Frank Church wrote these words which I think represent a problem that existed…