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Survey: Americans overstate president's power

A recent survey suggests the American public tends to hold exaggerated ideas of what a president can and can't do. Brendan Nyhan, professor of government at Dartmouth College and one of the survey's co-authors, joins CBS News to unpack the findings.

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