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Elissa Slotkin: “Until the Strait of Hormuz is open, you literally just can't…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 07:17

But look, I can say very openly as a national security person, we have for sure degraded their nuclear capabilities. For sure degraded their ballistic missile capabilities. Important things in terms of the Iranian government. But Until the Strait of Hormuz is open, you literally just can't say that we've won this war when another country has a veto over what ship goes in and out. So I don't think it's a month old. It's a. It's a month old. But we're. We're sending in ground troops into that theater. We're not there yet, but. (07:17–07:26)

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Asserts that the Strait of Hormuz is not open and Iran has control over ship movements there.

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