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

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Republicans are Wasting BILLIONS on Military Adventurism in the Middle East

Published | Video Starts at 35:28

This is a cheap trick to score political points and we're not buying it. I don't think anybody throughout the country is buying it. The president's own national director. I get that. You can't make this up. The president's own national director of the National Counterterrorism center, who Trump himself appointed, resigned this morning stating that he cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran and that, quote, Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation. End quote. Also, Republicans already funded ICE and CBP and their big ugly bill. So why are they holding up funding for tsa, the Coast Guard and fema? (35:28–35:39)

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Asserts that the National Counterterrorism Center director resigned over the Iran war, claiming Iran posed no imminent threat.

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