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Jim McGovern: “Trump decided to deny Cuba access to fuel.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 04:46

What are you hearing? I'm assuming you still have some contacts in Cuba. If you do, what have you been hearing since this embargo began? What's life like in Havana? Well, when Trump decided to deny Cuba access to fuel. Yeah. I mean, there have been shortages, power outages, total power outages. I mean, people are like, what the hell? What the hell is going on here? (04:46–04:51)

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