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Mark Kelly: “It's also a mistake for this president or any president to…”

Featuring: Mark Kelly, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Arizona

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Senator Mark Kelly Discusses US-Iran Tensions and Nuclear Program Concerns

Published | Video Starts at 01:33

Some ears and a brain can recognize that kind of firepower with that specificity at that location and others is going to have a devastating effect. Very, very successful. It was called obliteration. It's also a mistake for this president or any president to be saying the results of a strike before you have the intelligence. Of course we didn't obliterate it. You know, I'm a guy that used to drop bombs on buildings and bridges and ships. And BDA is its own science done by the intelligence agency. (01:33–01:41)

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Asserts that announcing the results of military actions without intelligence is a mistake.

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