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Elizabeth Warren: “Ultimately, the power is less about Congress and more about…”

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 06:06

So I'm not ready to give up on the Constitution. I'm not ready to say that the President has broken the whole thing. But Ultimately, the power is less about Congress and more about 300 million people across this country who are going to have to be in the fight to save our country, to save our Constitution, to save our democracy. And ultimately, that's not just an abstraction. It's really to save our public schools, to save access to health care, to save your grandma's Social Security, that those are the things we're going to have to be in the fight for. (06:06–06:24)

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Asserts that the responsibility to protect democracy and the Constitution lies with the American people.

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