Sacha Baron Cohen recalls his Secret Service fears in getting close to pulling a Who Is America? prank on Ben Carson

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Before his scheduled meeting with the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Cohen tells Deadline he feared he might be arrested if he handed Carson's Secret Service agents his fake ID as a Finnish unboxing YouTube star. But at the last minute, a White House press aide figured out something was awry and pulled Carson from the interview just before he was about to sit down for the interview.