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Kamala Harris: “I was the first person at the highest level of our United…”

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Kamala Harris: 'I Was The First Person' In The Biden Admin. To Raise Concerns About Gaza Starvation

Published | Video Starts at 00:27

… talk about a little bit more is five months after October 7th, I gave a speech at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in commemoration of bloody science. And I was the first person at the highest level of our United States government or administration to talk about the fact that the people in Gaza were starving. That was a year and a half ago. And to talk. And people in our administration can tell you what my voice was in those rooms, in those closed rooms in the Oval Office. (00:27–00:38)

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