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Edward Markey: “John Kerry and Barack Obama ensured that the International…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Senator Markey on The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell

Published | Video Starts at 00:22

Senator, there's Donald Trump pretending that John Kerry and President Obama didn't already negotiate exactly the words that he is hoping to get a grant to agree to which he hasn't been able to get them to agree to yet. John Kerry and Barack Obama ensured that the International Atomic Energy Agency would be able to go anywhere they needed to go in order to determine whether or not the Iranians were violating the nuclear agreement. And there was no evidence that they were doing so. And in fact, the Iranians were at least a year away from getting a nuclear weapon because of that full scope safeguards program which John Kerry and Barack Obama negotiated. (00:22–00:39)

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Asserts that the IAEA had full access to verify Iran's compliance with the nuclear agreement.

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