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Jim Himes: “We're going to move a big chunk of the Navy's combat power…”

Featuring: Jim Himes, Democratic | U.S. House Connecticut, 4th Congressional District

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Published | Video Starts at 06:05

And so they're again, in the legal opinion, they're basically saying, okay, we take all of that, you know, the last 40 years and we take that as congressional blessing. And now we're going to take it a lot further because We're going to move a big chunk of the Navy's combat power into the Caribbean. But it's still not a war, even though, you know, we've got an aircraft carrier there and we're going to attack civilians in what has traditionally been a law enforcement context. (06:05–06:10)

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Asserts that a significant portion of the Navy's combat power is being moved to the Caribbean.

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