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Bill Keating: “This was to create leverage for regime change in Venezuela.”

Featuring: Bill Keating, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 9th Congressional District

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The phony rationale that these attacks are about fentanyl trafficking when we know fentanyl comes from China, India, through Mexico, then the baseless argument that this was about narco terrorism. You know, I don't believe a word of it. This was to create leverage for regime change in Venezuela. And now the president acknowledged that was about oil. Beyond the simple need for justice and exercising American values, it's important for us to discuss what the US Belligerence in … (03:01–03:07)

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Asserts that the attacks were intended to create leverage for regime change in Venezuela.

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