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Chris Van Hollen: “We also need to call out all of those people and law firms…”

Featuring: Chris Van Hollen, Democratic | U.S. Senate Maryland

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And as Chris said, he wants to use that to squash dissent. So we do need to continue to speak up individually and collectively. We also need to call out all of those people and law firms and businesses who are capitulating and caving into Donald Trump. because when they appease him, they're appeasing a bully. He will take more and more and more. And when they appease him, they put all of our rights at risk. (38:59–39:11)

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Asserts the need to criticize entities that are yielding to President Trump.

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