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Kirsten Gillibrand: “He's gone into Venezuela, he's taken out the leaders there…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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N.Y. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Trump, 2026 elections and more | Full Interview 3.15.26

Published | Video Starts at 15:18

He's forgotten about the role that the United States used to play in the world as a stability creator. He's creating massive instability. He's not only, you know, He's gone into Venezuela, he's taken out the leaders there, but left in the government. So it wasn't actually regime change. He's decapitated leadership in Iran, where he didn't even leave in place the people that he had hoped to take over, because he killed them. (15:18–15:24)

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Asserts that [President Trump] removed leaders in Venezuela but left the government intact.

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