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Adam Schiff: “The president continues to flirt with invoking the…”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Sen. Adam Schiff & Dick Durbin Blast Trump for Use of the Insurrection Act

Published | Video Starts at 07:36

There is no disorder in this country that cannot be dispersed by state and local law enforcement. But despite the clear letter of the law not being met here, The president continues to flirt with invoking the Insurrection act anyway. Because the president's goal here is not to prevent disorder, but to create it. Not to quell unrest, but to provoke it. (07:36–07:42)

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Asserts that the president is considering using the Insurrection Act.

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