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Jake Auchincloss: “We got to build more ships in the Chinese navy.”

Featuring: Jake Auchincloss, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, District 4

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Jeffrey Goldberg, Meghna Chakrabarti, and Rep. Jake Auchincloss in Boston on America at 250

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:11

You say we need you, this country needs you. We got 5 million homes to build. We got to build five Hoover dams worth of clean energy. We got to build more ships in the Chinese navy. Get to work, come go to the trade school, join a local union, join the military. There's a lot of different ways to be part of a team that's building stuff. (1:06:11–1:06:13)

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