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Cory Booker: “Republicans in the Senate are letting this president act…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Published | Video Starts at 03:50

And the Senate of the United States of America is rolling over and doing nothing. No oversight, no hearings, no checks and balances. Republicans in the Senate are letting this president act unilaterally, which the Constitution says there's no way a president can indiscriminately pick countries he wants to invade. That power lies in Congress. But Congress has got to use their power. And that's why the four of us, along with Senator Murphy, Senator Duckworth and others, are saying, enough. (03:50–04:00)

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Asserts that Republicans in the Senate are allowing the president to act unilaterally against constitutional provisions.

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