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Mark Kelly: “They were lying to the American people last summer and now…”

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

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Is Nuking Iran an "Illegal Order?" - with Sen. Mark Kelly

Published | Video Starts at 25:34

And then it became recently, we have to get rid of their nuclear program. Well, if it was obliterated in June, why, why are you even mentioning it now? And it's obvious because it wasn't obliterated. So They were lying to the American people last summer and now they're in a. In a thing. If you want to try to get rid of this nuclear material, it's going to be really, really hard to do. And it's. It would likely cost the lives of more Americans. So who do you think pulled him into this? Because he was famously known to be the anti war president. (25:34–25:45)

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Asserts that the American people were lied to about the status of the nuclear program.

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