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Chris Coons: “President Trump carried out a strike against Iran that…”

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'This is not how a democracy goes to war': Dem Senator raises concerns after U.S. strikes in Iran

Published | Video Starts at 01:35

In his State of the Union address, he gave a brief reference to a broad range of concerns about Iran that frankly, any president could have raised in the last decade. And I'll remind you, Jonathan, just a few months ago, he President Trump carried out a strike against Iran that supposedly obliterated its nuclear weapons capabilities. So either it did or didn't obliterate those nuclear weapons capabilities. To say that they now pose an imminent threat to the United States flies in the face of what he's previously said. (01:35–01:46)

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Asserts that a previous strike by President Trump was claimed to have destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities.

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