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Van Jones: Can you imagine if Barack Obama had said that he was going to start snatching licenses? I mean this would have been…

On the recordOctober 10, 2017
Can you imagine if Barack Obama had said that he was going to start snatching licenses? I mean this would have been declared a constitutional crisis at the minute the tweet hit the internet.
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Van Jones

Editor's note · Context

Jones contrasts Republican reactions to President Trump's threats against broadcasters with hypothetical reactions to Obama.

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