Claim(permalink)
The president has a "constitutional authority to tell the Justice Department who to investigate, who not to investigate. That's what Thomas Jefferson did, that's what Lincoln did, that's what Roosevelt did. We have precedents that clearly establish that."
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Sentiment
Date published
2017-12-05
Entities
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