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Jim McGovern: “Forget the Straits of Hormuz are now closed.”

Featuring: Jim McGovern, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 2nd Congressional District

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McGovern: Trump's Administration is WEAPONS GRADE STUPID

Published | Video Starts at 01:03

I mean, this is a mess. And nobody knows what the hell they're doing. And quite frankly, we should not even be in this predicament to begin with. I mean, Forget the Straits of Hormuz are now closed. We're trying to get them open, but they were open before Donald Trump decided to use US Military and get involved in this thing. So we've created a mess. (01:03–01:06)

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