Like Senator Schumer said, there is no precedent that I can think of in American history. There has never been a president who used this Department of Justice to quiet Congress in this way. We have gone through many events in the history of the United States that are earth shattering, the Civil War being the worst, but we've never seen this happen. (00:35–00:42)
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Asserts that no previous president has used the Department of Justice to silence Congress.
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