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Elissa Slotkin: “I've heard, I think at this point, four different rationales…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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CNN: Slotkin on Iran and Stranded Americans in the Middle East

Published | Video Starts at 00:26

Does the strategy make sense to you? I mean, I'm not sure I've heard a strategy, and I think I've heard, I think at this point, four different rationales for why we started these operations. The President saying there was an imminent threat and then not saying there was an imminent threat. Marco Rubio saying the Israelis were under threat, and then, no, he cleared it up later. (00:26–00:32)

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Asserts that there have been four different rationales given for starting military operations.

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