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华盛顿讯 —— 路易斯安那州共和党参议员比尔·卡西迪周三在白宫听取简报后，撤回了对民主党限制特朗普总统对伊朗战争权力举措的支持。他表示，在与特朗普进行闭门激烈交锋后，他通过递纸条给总统的中东特使，争取到了这次简报。
“从某种意义上说，我其实完成了我需要完成的任务，”卡西迪周四在接受《与玛格丽特·布伦南会面》采访时说道。
卡西迪与总统在周三一场气氛紧张的参议院共和党午餐会上发生争执。特朗普当天对包括卡西迪在内的四名共和党参议员表示不满，这些参议员前一天支持了一项旨在限制总统对伊朗行动的决议。这位路易斯安那州共和党人称，在总统提高嗓门后，他在会上动了怒。
在将于周日播出的接受玛格丽特·布伦南的采访中，卡西迪表示，与总统交锋后，他递了一张纸条给中东特使史蒂夫·威特科夫，称自己会考虑更改投票意向。
“史蒂夫，我会考虑改票，但我之前一直投赞成票，因为我没有得到简报，”卡西迪回忆自己写给威特科夫的内容。“他说：‘一小时后给我回电，我们开个简报会。’我们昨晚开了会。”
简报会后，卡西迪在周三晚间的关键投票中反对民主党最新推动的战争权力决议，这一投票帮助共和党挫败了相关努力。
卡西迪曾于5月在参议院初选中败给特朗普支持的挑战者，他解释称，自己此前支持战争权力相关举措的理由是“因为我们没有得到简报”。
“我们作为参议院、作为国会、作为美国，我认为我们获得简报是很重要的，”他说。“我认同总统最初的目标，但在我看来这些目标并未实现，所以在我能说‘好吧，一切都没问题’之前，我说我需要得到简报。”
当被问及在简报会上听到了什么改变了他的想法时，这位路易斯安那州共和党人称，如果最初的目标是削弱伊朗的核能力、弹道导弹和常规作战能力，在他看来这些目标“是可以实现的”。
“现在我们必须既要信任也要核实，但正如他们所阐述的那样，他们有一个可行的计划来实现这些目标，而这正是我所关心的，”卡西迪说。
身为医生的卡西迪表示，他始终会“尽可能多地获取信息，以弄清某人的诊断真相以及解决问题的正确方法”。
“如果不向我提供这些信息，我会感到沮丧，因为我的职责就是凭借手头掌握的信息履职，”他说。“我将同样的职业道德应用于公共服务中。”
卡西迪表示：“如果你不告诉我答案，我会争取得到这些答案。”
“所以，当总统斥责那四位投票支持战争权力法案的人时，坦率地说，我不是来这里挨骂的，”他说。“总统也不该在这里口头上辱骂他人。”
在与总统会面期间，卡西迪说他举手询问总统是否在就为何少数共和党人支持伊朗相关法案提出反问。
“他说：‘我确实很感兴趣。’我站起来说：‘这就是原因’，然后列出了我认为没有实现的那些目标，以及战争的这类终点如何不断被拉长，”卡西迪说。“他开始打断我讲话。不幸的是，我提高了音量以回应他。”
卡西迪说：“我本不该动怒，他也不该，但你知道的，我妻子总会跟你说，我的爱尔兰脾气时不时会失控。”
“但关键是，我需要了解情况。我需要了解情况才能为我的人民、我的州和我的国家服务，”他说。“结果是，我之后得到了简报。”
Cassidy says he passed a note to Witkoff to request briefing during heated Trump meeting
June 25, 2026 / 1:24 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana on Wednesday dropped his support for a Democrat-led effort to restrict President Trump’s war powers in Iran after receiving a briefing at the White House — a briefing he said he secured with a note slipped to the president’s envoy to the Middle East following a heated exchange with Mr. Trump behind closed doors.
“In one sense, I actually accomplished the mission of what I needed to do,” Cassidy said in an interview Thursday for “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”
Cassidy and the president sparred at a testy Senate Republican lunch meeting on Wednesday, where Mr. Trump expressed his discontent with four GOP senators, including Cassidy, who had supported a resolution 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.
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.
“Steve, I would consider changing my vote, but I’ve been voting yes because I’ve not been briefed,” Cassidy recalled writing to Witkoff. “He said, ‘Call me back in the hour and let’s have a briefing.’ We had it last night.”
After the briefing, Cassidy opposed the latest attempt by Democrats to advance a war powers resolution Wednesday night in a key vote that helped Republicans to defeat the effort.
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 “because we were not being briefed.”
“We could be the Senate, the Congress, or the United States, and I felt important that we be briefed,” he said. “I agreed with the president’s original goals, those were not being achieved by my perception, and so before I could say, ‘okay, everything’s hunky dory,’ I said I need to be briefed.”
When asked what he heard at the briefing that changed his mind, the Louisiana Republican said if the original objectives were to degrade Iran’s nuclear capability, its ballistic missiles and conventional warfare capabilities, it appeared to him that the objectives “can be reached.”
“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’s what I was interested in,” Cassidy said.
Cassidy, a medical doctor, said he’s always “going to try and get as much information as possible to come to the truth of someone’s diagnosis and the truth of how to treat that problem.”
“You deny me that information, and I’m going to be frustrated, because my job is to serve with the information I have before me,” he said. “I take that same ethic to public service.”
Cassidy said “If you’re not telling me answers, I’m going to push for those answers.”
“So, when the president was berating the four people that voted for the War Powers Act, frankly, I’m not there to be berated,” he said. “And the president wasn’t invited to dish out verbal abuse.”
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.
“He goes, ‘I’m really interested.’ I stood up and I said, ‘this is why,’ 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,” Cassidy said. “He began to speak over me. Unfortunately, I raised my volume to match his.”
Cassidy said “I shouldn’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.”
“But point being, I needed to know. I need to know to serve my people and my state and my country,” he said. “As it turns out, I got a briefing afterwards.”
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