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Elizabeth Warren: “I get an independent investigator to come in and say, can…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Talk Easy Interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren on Constitutional Crisis and Public Education

Published | Video Starts at 13:11

You sent out a letter last week to the head of sec. That's right. And by golly, got an investigation on Department of Education. It's. They have certain statutory duties. They're trying to fire everybody. I get an independent investigator to come in and say, can you still meet statutory authorities? And the importance of that is threefold. One, it reminds everybody in the agency and the SEC and the Department of Education, it reminds them, hey, you still have a job to do. (13:11–13:17)

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