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Lori Trahan: “This is a war of choice by the president.”

Featuring: Lori Trahan, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 3rd Congressional District

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Rep. Lori Trahan on the latest in Iran

Published | Video Starts at 02:53

Although the president would argue that action on Iran should have happened a long time ago and that he was the one who was willing to do it. He went This is a war of choice by the president. The timing, the stated goals, they've changed almost weekly. Just think about what the president has told us over the last 10 months. We were told Iran's nuclear sites had been obliterated. (02:53–02:57)

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Asserts that the current conflict is a war of choice initiated by the president.

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