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Lawrence: White House effectively says NYT reporters must have tapes of Situation Room meeting

From suspending habeas corpus to invoking the Insurrection Act, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell examines new reporting from The New York Times' Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan detailing White House discussions that alarmed even some Trump officials. Lawrence says, "it is easy to imagine what goes on in the Trump White House: discussions of trampling the Constitution, violating the law, and crushing our rights."

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