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Is Trump's war on drug cartels legal?

John Yoo helped developed the legal framework for the post-9/11 wars in the George W. Bush Justice Department. He argues Trump trying to invoke war powers too extraordinary to be used against crime.

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Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
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