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Kirsten Gillibrand: “You said that we had obliterated, quote, unquote, Iran's…”

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

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Why they are so upset with you and this administration is because the words you have used in the past don't add up about Iran specifically. You said that we had obliterated, quote, unquote, Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons and the president made the same claim. Yet eight months later in February of 2026, the President launched an act of war claiming Iran was within two weeks of having a weapon. So when you say two very different things. (02:40–02:48)

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Asserts that it was claimed Iran's ability to create nuclear weapons was obliterated.

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