CNN Legal View With Ashleigh Banfield June 2, 2014 16:26:00
Television program "turn" would see this. and the constitution vests the president with the exclusive authority as commander in chief. a law that intrudes upon that authority, that detracts from his ability to perform his command function, is a law that candidly he shouldn't comply with. and so i think that what you see here is him emphasizing this was not the type of transfer contemplated by the notification provision of the national defense authorization act. this was a operational, military operational prisoner swap and fell within his constitutional authority and i think he was on solid co...
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