Attorney on Trump’s Religious Freedom Exec Order: ‘It Does Nothing’

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WHITFIELD: "Richard, do you agree with that?"
HERMAN: "Well, Fred, it's the weekly insult to the intelligence of the American population by the Trump Administration. Here, he stands up yesterday with pomp and circumstance surrounded by his conservative religious backers and constituents and tells them he annihilated the Johnson Amendment. First of all, as your reporter said."
WHITFIELD: "It takes an act of Congress."
HERMAN: "Right. It's a wish by a president. It's not law. Congress has to do that. Number two, what he did was nothing. He did nothing of substance yesterday. Yet, he proclaimed this great result and by the way, how possible the conservative right wing religious organizations can support this guy after knowing his history and what --"