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Michael Bennet: “He vetoed it... because Tina Peters, his ally, is in a jail…”

Featuring: Michael Bennet, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Colorado

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Full interview: Sen. Michael Bennet on Trump's retaliation against Colorado

Published | Video Starts at 02:43

And we have carried it through and carried it through, finding almost $500 million over the years to continue to build that so that the 50,000 farmers and ranchers in southeastern Colorado finally could have that promise answered. And He vetoed it... because Tina Peters, his ally, is in a jail in Pueblo. by the way, put there by a jury of her peers. Is that project dead? I mean, what's going to happen with that now? Right. You got it through Congress unanimously. (02:43–02:54)

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Asserts that the veto of the Arkansas Valley Conduit was due to the incarceration of Tina Peters.

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