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Mark Warner: “The military assets that should have been in the region were…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Senator Warner Says Iran Wasn't an Imminent Threat

Published | Video Starts at 04:08

… January and there were literally hundreds of thousands on the street, the President said at that point he might want to back those people, but he was unable to because The military assets that should have been in the region were part of the aircraft carrier in particular was off the coast of Venezuela. on another one of his military forays. And the European allies that would normally be with us helping put pressure on the Iranian regime were appropriately focused on the President's, I think, crazy folly about trying to take over Greenland. (04:08–04:16)

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Asserts that military assets were off the coast of Venezuela instead of being in the region.

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