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Jill Tokuda: “President Trump ordered you to deploy troops to polling…”

Featuring: Jill Tokuda, Democratic | U.S. House Hawaii, 2nd Congressional District

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'Who are you beholden to – the president or the Constitution?': Dem Rep. grills Hegseth

Published | Video Starts at 00:45

We just had the King of England here that a while ago, but, oh, 250 years ago. Okay, very good. All right. Well, Secretary Hexeth, if President Trump ordered you to deploy troops to polling places during the midterm elections this fall, which would violate the law I just cited. would you implement his order, yes or no? What you're trying to insinuate is that the president would give unlawful orders and we would somehow deploy troops as a result. (00:45–00:54)

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Asserts that deploying troops to polling places would violate the law.

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