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Michael Bennet: “President Trump said Iran's nuclear facilities had been…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 00:52

President Trump has offered no credible justification for an imminent threat. No clear goals, no strategy or timeline. His message keeps changing, I think, in really damaging ways. President Trump said Iran's nuclear facilities had been, quote, totally obliterated in June 2025. But when he launched this latest war, he said, we need to eliminate the imminent nuclear threat of those totally obliterated nuclear facilities. (00:52–01:00)

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