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Donald Trump: “They never had a president that would allow them to do it.”

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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu Discuss Middle East Peace Efforts and Global Trade at the White House

Published | Video Starts at 20:30

From just after 2000, they've been thinking and practicing to go into that area. I guess you probably know that better than anybody, Pete. They've been looking at going in, but They never had a president that would allow them to do it. And perhaps right, perhaps wrong. I don't know if that's true or not, but I didn't realize there were preparing for that journey from just a little bit after 2000, the year 2000. (20:30–20:34)

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Asserts that previous presidents did not permit the execution of a specific military mission.

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