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Sen. Mark Kelly - "I'm Not Backing Down" | The Daily Show

Published | Video Starts at 11:05

And we've seen in our history multiple times when even under those circumstances, members of the military have done stuff that was clearly over the line. We did not want that to happen. Under the Obama administration, they did extrajudicial killings of an American citizen through drone strikes. Like we criticized that. That's my point is there's enough gray area in some of these actions. I mean, is any of this legal under the aum you know, under, under. (11:05–11:11)

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Asserts that the Obama administration conducted extrajudicial killings of an American citizen using drone strikes.

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