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Kristen Welker: “Did you break that promise to the American people?”

Featuring: Kristen Welker, Host of Meet the Press | National

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Published | Video Starts at 20:02

I'd like to talk big picture now. Mr. President, one of your consistent campaign promises was no new wars going all the way back to 2015. Did you break that promise to the American people? I had to stop a country, very powerful, very dangerous country from having a nuclear weapon because they'd use it. They'd blow up the world. (20:02–20:06)

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Questions whether the promise of no new wars was broken.

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