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Mike Johnson: “In defiance of every American president since Jimmy Carter…”

Featuring: Mike Johnson, Republican | Speaker of the United States House of Representatives | National

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Published | Video Starts at 02:56

And they'd like to take us out as well. We're the great Satan in their analogy and their misguided religion. And there was no way to appease them. In defiance of every American president since Jimmy Carter, the Iranian regime has pursued the means to acquire a nuclear weapon. so that they could take that madness and that ideology to its full conclusion. Everyone, regardless of political affiliation, should be able to agree that that can never happen. (02:56–03:04)

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Asserts that Iran has pursued nuclear weapons in defiance of every U.S. president since Jimmy Carter.

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