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Mark Pocan: “It was very clear when we had a briefing on the bombings of…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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With Liberty and Justice for Some Ep. 56 with Matt Duss

Published | Video Starts at 27:30

And it's like they just kind of throw these arguments out there and it's like, well, take whichever one sounds right to you because they don't actually have a coherent theory of the case for why we're doing this. Yeah, It was very clear when we had a briefing on the bombings of the boats that they were setting this up. That was the argument that they wanted to put that out there. And that's also when they promised us they weren't planning any going into Venezuela, which they shortly thereafter did. (27:30–27:36)

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