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John Cornyn: “We basically have an incompetent, mentally incompetent…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Interview with Texas Senator John Cornyn on Constitutional Crisis and Legislative Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 00:33

Well, we, we need to get past the failures of the media, which were legend, as you pointed out, or the political issue of were you for Biden or against Biden? This is about a constitutional crisis where We basically have an incompetent, mentally incompetent president who's not in charge. So the question is, who is in charge? Whose finger is on the nuclear button or has nuclear codes? Who can, who can declare war? (00:33–00:40)

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