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Abdul El-Sayed: “We're fighting a war that's cost us billions of dollars.”

Featuring: Abdul El-Sayed, Podcast Host, America Dissected | National

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Published | Video Starts at 43:00

You seem very concerned about that. I'm more concerned about the fact that people can't pay for their gas. They can't pay for their groceries. We're fighting a war that's cost us billions of dollars. Billion dollars that has been pushed by the government of a foreign country, the same foreign country that the folks paying for your ads want us to send billions of dollars to. (43:00–43:04)

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Asserts that the U.S. is involved in a war costing billions of dollars.

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