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00:00So, Secretary Noam, what is habeas corpus?
00:04Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the President has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their right to...
00:11No, let me stop you, ma'am. Habeas corpus, excuse me, that's incorrect.
00:16President Lincoln used it.
00:18Excuse me. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people.
00:27If not for that protection, the government could simply arrest people, including American citizens, and hold them indefinitely for no reason.
00:36Habeas corpus is the foundational right that separates free societies like America from police states like North Korea.
00:43As a senator from the live free or die state, this matters a lot to me and my constituents and to all Americans.
00:50So, Secretary Noam, do you support the core protection that habeas corpus provides, that the government must provide a public reason in order to detain and imprison someone?
01:01Yeah, I support habeas corpus.
01:03I also recognize that the President of the United States has the authority under the Constitution to decide if it should be suspended or not.
01:10It has never been done without approval of Congress.
01:15Even Abraham Lincoln got retroactive approval from Congress.
01:18It has never been done without approval of Congress.