But second, because Trump does think that he's a king, and he thinks that he can act more corruptly when the government is shut down, but he cannot. He doesn't have new powers, extra powers, in the shutdown. The President of the United States, during a shutdown or even when the government is open, does not have the power to send masked men into our cities and pull off the streets of our peaceful neighbors and throw them into the back of vans and into prisons. He never has that power. Whether it's a shutdown or not, the President of the United States does not have the power to use the FCC and the Department of … (04:00–04:13)
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Asserts that the President does not have the power to detain citizens in this manner.
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