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Henry Cuellar: “I saw legal advice, I saw two ethics opinions.”

Featuring: Henry Cuellar, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 28

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Published | Video Starts at 00:17

Can you explain the $600,000 done is in contracts that your wife received and you received by that? Can you explain it? Yeah. All I gotta say is that there was. I saw legal advice, I saw two ethics opinions. and can. You, can you tell us what you saw? The opinions were that she could work with the Azerbaijanis. We will let the attorneys take care of. (00:17–00:19)

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