Jennings to CNN Co-Panel: Extremely Dangerous to Suggest that Military Should Be Independent and Bureaucracy Should Resist Trump

EXCERPT:

JENNINGS: "How is Trump shredding the Constitution?"

JOHNSON: "My God — "

TOURÉ: "I mean, seriously? Do we have to give you a civics lesson that we have — "

JENNINGS: "I don‘t know."

TOURÉ: " — that we have — that we put all power in the executive branch, the legislative branch, the FBI, now we‘re in control of the military, we‘re silencing media? This is what you do in a dictatorship."

JENNINGS: "Are you — are you suggesting that the president is not the commander-in-chief of the military?"

TOURÉ: "I am suggesting that the president is going to put in charge somebody who is going to contravene the Constitution. And at some near point this conversation will look very silly for you because it will be obvious. And right now you‘re gaslighting before we get to the actual rubber of the road of this. It will be clear."

JENNINGS: "I‘m interested in this conversation. He‘s going to put someone in charge who will contravene the Constitution. Like, who? What do you mean by that?