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Donald Trump: “You can't let the most violent, vicious country in the last…”

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President Trump holds news conference amid Iran conflict

Published | Video Starts at 56:52

I can tell you that when this is over, oil prices are going to go down very, very rapidly. So is inflation, so is everything else. But frankly, much more important than short term, even long term oil prices. You can't let the most violent, vicious country in the last 50 years have a nuclear weapon because the Middle East will be gone. Israel will go first without question. And they'll certainly take a shot at us before we get our act together and say, we got to take them out. (56:52–57:05)

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Asserts that allowing a certain country to have nuclear weapons would lead to the destruction of the Middle East.

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