President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday he has unlimited power, and that includes the power to send the military to any state or city he chooses, he told reporters at the White House.

“I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States,” Trump said during a televised cabinet meeting that ran for more than three hours Tuesday. (Here’s a transcript , via Roll Call.)

Trump was reacting to public tension over the Pentagon’s reported plans to send troops into Chicago, which U.S. military officials have been planning for several weeks as a White House response to “crime, homelessness and undocumented immigration” in Illinois’ largest city, according to the Washington Post . If the governor of Illinois requests the Guard troops, the process would l

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