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Dick Durbin: “President Trump called the Insurrection act the strongest…”

Featuring: Dick Durbin, Democratic | U.S. Senate Illinois

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

Published | Video Starts at 15:20

And it certainly didn't tell the story that President Trump and others are trying to tell about the city. Just last week, President Trump called the Insurrection act the strongest power a president has. President Trump is known for exaggerating. But this time he wasn't. In his hands. The hands of a man who wants to be came, who nearly every day undermines checks and balances in the Constitution. (15:20–15:26)

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