Cassidy says he passed a note to Witkoff during heated Trump meeting

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. …