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Ilhan Omar: “Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the department in…”

Featuring: Ilhan Omar, Democratic | U.S. House Minnesota, District 5

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Rep. Ilhan Omar says any link between alleged Somali fraud and terrorism is a "failure of the FBI"

Published | Video Starts at 03:24

… sure that this would continue to happen by Using whatever rhetoric that was available to her. We do know that when the money was stopped, they did sue the ag. Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the department in that lawsuit. It was a judge that said it should continue, that money should continue to go out. And so this wasn't something that people were not looking at. There was always those alarms. (03:24–03:31)

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Asserts that Attorney General Keith Ellison defended the department in a lawsuit related to the fraud.

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