Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190215:12:03:00
President truman tried to get congress to give him the authority to seize the mills and keep them going. and congress said, no. he did it anyway. and in one of the most famous supreme court opinions of all time, in 1952 the steel seizure case, the supreme court said president truman, you can't do that. that unless the president acts with specific authorization under the constitution, a president cannot act in this way. this is one of the profound issues of how america is governed. congress has the power of the purse. the president executes and snaends money. here we have a situation with where...
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