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The legality of suggesting foreign leaders investigate Biden

Trump is suggesting foreign leaders investigate the Bidens. Is that illegal?

10/03/2019

PBS News Hour

The legality of suggesting foreign leaders investigate Biden

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Trump is suggesting foreign leaders investigate the Bidens. Is that illegal?

What are the legal and national security implications of President Donald Trump’s encouraging foreign powers to investigate a potential political rival? Judy Woodruff talks to Michael Mukasey, who was attorney general under former President George W. Bush, and Carrie Cordero, a former Justice Department and intelligence official who served in both Republican and Democratic administrations.

10/03/2019

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