WATCH: Trump’s Weakness is “Breathtaking”; Sen. Schiff Breaks Down Trump’s Ineffective Negotiations to End Illegal Iran War

Schiff:"…This regime is emerging more powerful, at least it feels it's more powerful, more entrenched, more hard line, more of a threat to its own people. It's the result of entering a war without thinking about the consequences and conducting it incompetently. And the fundamental weakness of this president."

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell to break down President Trump's ineffective negotiations aimed at ending his illegal Iran war.

Last week, Senator Schiff led the sixth War Powers Resolution aimed at requiring the administration to end this illegal war. The procedural vote would have brought Senator Schiff's resolution up for Senate consideration on the 60-day mark after the administration's notification to Congress, coinciding with the War Powers Act's statutory clock running out. 

View the full interview here.

Key Excerpts:   

On Americans paying the price of the Iran war:

[…] But Iran now feels empowered. It feels like the clock is ticking on its side. It feels the president is desperate for a deal. You hear the president talking about a deal basically, that sounds a lot like the deal that Barack Obama struck that he so ridiculed. And he wishes to distinguish it somehow by saying, no. No, this deal will be different, because this deal, in this deal, Iran promises not to develop a bomb. Well, I guess, I guess that's really something we can now rely on. Iran's word. So, we are just saying, as you said, the president having trapped himself growing weaker and weaker, and sadly, he has also trapped the country. And we're paying for it. Prices are now 50% higher at the pump, and Donald Trump said today that if they went up another 50% and were paying double that, it would be worth it. Well, I don't think the American people feel this is worth it at all.

On the weakness of President Trump:

[…] And unfortunately, even if we went back to the JCPOA, Iran now feels that it has the leverage, because it can shut down the strait, and any threat that it might shut down the strait. For example, if it doesn't abide by any deal struck with President Trump in the future, and the president threatens to snap back sanctions. Which is basically the same mechanism as under the Obama JCPOA. Iran can threaten, well, if you snap back sanctions, we're going to close the strait. And that now is a powerful threat that really wasn't the case before this ill-considered and unlawful war. So tragically, I think this regime is emerging more powerful, at least it feels it's more powerful, more entrenched, more hard line, more of a threat to its own people. It's the result of entering a war without thinking about the consequences and conducting it incompetently. And the fundamental weakness of this president.

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