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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We have laws on the books that say that prohibit the United…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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Rep. AOC Speaks at TU Berlin on The Future of U.S. Politics

Published | Video Starts at 43:41

And what people see in Gaza, when, in my instance, when the United States supplies the weapons that are used to do this, when We have laws on the books that say that prohibit the United States from providing weapons in instances of gross human rights violations. what people are seeing is this entire argument for democracy fall apart. What they're saying is all of these reasons that we said democracy is superior were false. (43:41–43:52)

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Asserts that U.S. laws prohibit providing weapons in cases of gross human rights violations.

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