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Jon Tester: “The negotiations [for the border security bill] went on for…”

Featuring: Jon Tester, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Montana

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'Epitome of craziness': Sen. Tester torches GOP who stopped border deal for Trump

Published | Video Starts at 03:16

And when I go back home to Montana, I hear from everybody, from families to sheriffs to border patrol folks, that we need to fix this border. We need to know who's coming across the border. So The negotiations [for the border security bill] went on for four months. It was a price to get the dollars for Ukraine and came up with a deal. And look, it was a deal that I written, but I think it's a pretty doggone good deal. (03:16–03:19)

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Asserts that negotiations for the border security bill lasted four months.

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