Speaker Johnson calls military attack on Iran well within President Trump's constitutional authority

House Speaker Mike Johnson of Louisiana says answering a reporter question at a weekly news conference that strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were clearly within President Trump's Article 2 powers as commander-in-chief and should not even be in dispute, puts on constitutional law hat because both the law and precedent are important for everyone to understand, notes the framers of the constitution never intended for the president to seek approval of Congress every time he exercises his constitutional authority under Article 2 as Commander in Chief, cites Alexander Hamilton's argument in Federalist number 70 that energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government and essential to protection of the community against foreign attacks, explains this is why framers did not explicitly set restrictions on the president.