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Elissa Slotkin: “The president believes the federal government is a tool of…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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MS NOW: Slotkin says she is going on offense after Trump's DOJ fails to indict

Published | Video Starts at 09:15

When we said no, they went again, what we'd call high and right, and they went to court. So it doesn't surprise me. It shouldn't surprise anyone anymore. The president believes the federal government is a tool of his political machine, and he's acting that way. You talked a little bit about the access you have to lawyers to establish a legal defense fund to use the media, media to, you know, talk about what they're doing. (09:15–09:21)

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Asserts that the president uses the federal government as a political tool.

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