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Edward Markey: “When Donald Trump pulled out of that agreement in 2017, he…”

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 00:55

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. And so When Donald Trump pulled out of that agreement in 2017, he was triggering something that would ultimately result in Donald Trump himself in 2025 saying that he was going to go in to obliterate the nuclear program. And this year once again re instigated an attack against Iran. All to put us back to where John Kerry and Barack Obama had us in in the first place. (00:55–01:14)

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Asserts that Trump's withdrawal from the agreement in 2017 led to future threats against Iran's nuclear program.

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