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Mark Kelly: “This president is violating people's constitutional rights…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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'I'm not going to shut up': Sen. Kelly to attend Trump's State of the Union

Published | Video Starts at 00:25

And do you think your Democratic colleagues have a responsibility to attend as well? Tom? I think everybody has to make their own choice, and I understand my colleagues who made the choice not to be there. This president is violating people's constitutional rights, especially folks in Minnesota, Los Angeles. We have two dead Americans. Other people have been beaten up, their homes have been entered without, without warrants. And you know, in my case, I made the decision to be in that room tonight for a very specific reason. (00:25–00:33)

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Asserts that the president is violating constitutional rights in Minnesota and Los Angeles.

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