{"id":86131,"date":"2026-06-25T16:42:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cassidy-says-he-passed-a-note-to-witkoff-to-request-briefing-during-heated-trump-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T16:42:40","slug":"cassidy-says-he-passed-a-note-to-witkoff-to-request-briefing-during-heated-trump-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cassidy-says-he-passed-a-note-to-witkoff-to-request-briefing-during-heated-trump-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy says he passed a note to Witkoff to request briefing during heated Trump meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Wednesday dropped his support for a Democrat-led effort to restrict President Trump&#8217;s war powers in Iran after receiving a briefing at the White House \u2014 a briefing he said he secured with a note slipped to the president&#8217;s envoy to the Middle East following a heated exchange with Mr. Trump behind closed doors. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In one sense, I actually accomplished the mission of what I needed to do,&#8221; Cassidy said in an interview Thursday for &#8220;Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy and the president sparred at a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-testy-gop-senators-meeting-bill-cassidy\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">testy Senate Republican lunch<\/a><\/span> meeting on Wednesday, where Mr. Trump expressed his discontent with four GOP senators, including Cassidy, who had <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-house-pass-iran-war-powers-resolution-trump\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">supported a resolution<\/a><\/span> aimed at reining in the president in Iran a day prior. The Louisiana Republican described losing his temper at the meeting, after the president raised his voice. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Margaret Brennan that will air on Sunday, Cassidy said that after his exchange with the president, he passed a note to Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, saying he would consider changing his vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Steve, I would consider changing my vote, but I&#8217;ve been voting yes because I&#8217;ve not been briefed,&#8221; Cassidy recalled writing to Witkoff. &#8220;He said, &#8216;Call me back in the hour and let&#8217;s have a briefing.&#8217; We had it last night.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the briefing, <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/senate-rejects-measure-restrict-trump-iran-war-powers-as-key-republicans-shift-votes\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Cassidy opposed<\/a><\/span> the latest attempt by Democrats to advance a war powers resolution Wednesday night in a key vote that helped Republicans to defeat the effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, who lost his Senate primary to a Trump-backed challenger in May, outlined that his rationale for supporting the previous war powers efforts had been &#8220;because we were not being briefed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could be the Senate, the Congress, or the United States, and I felt important that we be briefed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I agreed with the president&#8217;s original goals, those were not being achieved by my perception, and so before I could say, &#8216;okay, everything&#8217;s hunky dory,&#8217; I said I need to be briefed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked what he heard at the briefing that changed his mind, the Louisiana Republican said if the original objectives were to degrade Iran&#8217;s nuclear capability, its ballistic missiles and conventional warfare capabilities, it appeared to him that the objectives &#8220;can be reached.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now we have to trust but verify, but as they laid it out, they have a plausible plan by which to achieve those, and that&#8217;s what I was interested in,&#8221; Cassidy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy, a medical doctor, said he&#8217;s always &#8220;going to try and get as much information as possible to come to the truth of someone&#8217;s diagnosis and the truth of how to treat that problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You deny me that information, and I&#8217;m going to be frustrated, because my job is to serve with the information I have before me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I take that same ethic to public service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy said &#8220;If you&#8217;re not telling me answers, I&#8217;m going to push for those answers.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, when the president was berating the four people that voted for the War Powers Act, frankly, I&#8217;m not there to be berated,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And the president wasn&#8217;t invited to dish out verbal abuse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting with the president, Cassidy said he raised his hand and asked whether the president was asking a rhetorical question on why the small group of Republicans had supported the Iran measure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He goes, &#8216;I&#8217;m really interested.&#8217; I stood up and I said, &#8216;this is why,&#8217; and I listed those objectives that I did not see being achieved, and how the kind of endpoint of the war kept stretching out longer and longer,&#8221; Cassidy said. &#8220;He began to speak over me. Unfortunately, I raised my volume to match his.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassidy said &#8220;I shouldn&#8217;t have lost my temper, nor should he, but you know, my wife will tell you every now and then, my Irish temper gets the best of me.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But point being, I needed to know. 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