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Cory Booker: “Donald Trump tore up [the Iran nuclear] deal and the…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Senator Cory Booker on The Last Word Full Interview about the Iran War and Voting Rights Act

Published | Video Starts at 02:01

Inspection regimes there, snap inspections, cameras at their facilities, the International Atomic Energy Commission able to have full access to their facilities. And then as a result of that, they really had no more highly enriched uranium. Donald Trump tore up [the Iran nuclear] deal and the Iranians raced to get highly enriched uranium. Donald Trump then said that was the reason he bombed. He said he completely obliterated their program. And then just months later, he said, no, we've got to go to war over it. (02:01–02:08)

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Asserts that Trump ended the Iran nuclear deal, leading Iran to pursue enriched uranium.

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