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Obama’s debut in exerting executive privilege

President Clinton when in office invoked executive a total of 14 time. For President George W. Bush, six times. But when President Obama for the first time used executive privilege, it led to a contempt vote from Congress of a top member of his administration. New York University professor Kenji Yoshino, Yahoo News’ David Chalian join Melissa Harris-Perry to discuss why.