What they're doing in the executive branch, I've been asked so many times, aren't you uncomfortable with this? No, I'm not. Because When Congress, for example, appropriates dollars for the executive branch to use, we build in...a broad amount of discretion for how that is used. that is used. There is a presupposition in America that the commander in chief is going to be a good steward of taxpayer dollars, that the commander in chief, the … (08:50–09:01)
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