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Mark Pocan: “We had invasion. We took out [Venezuela's] leader.”

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 21:13

And, you know, certainly that regime was awful to its people, but that doesn't mean we need to be awful to its people either. All right, let's move to Venezuela if we could real quick. We another, We had invasion. We took out [Venezuela's] leader. There's lots of talk of what it was for. You know, they kind of told us again, it was about, you know, drugs and fentanyl and all the rest of this. (21:13–21:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. invaded Venezuela and removed its leader.

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