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Thom Tillis: “It's absolutely appropriate for the President to push the…”

Featuring: Thom Tillis, Republican | U.S. Senate North Carolina

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Extended interview: Sen. Tillis on not running for re-election and Trump's Cabinet

Published | Video Starts at 26:20

And we had the tug and pull back and forth, you know, the chief executive wanting more power and trying to put the legislature in their place. It's absolutely appropriate for the President to push the envelope. I don't want him to make my job easy, but nor should he think I'm going to make his job easy if it runs afoul of President or the law. (26:20–26:24)

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Asserts that it is appropriate for the President to challenge legislative boundaries.

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