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Mike Johnson: “We went to get a criminal who had been indicted in a US…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 49:01

As you know, they have an interim president now, and so we're not boots on the ground. We're not occupying Venezuela. We haven't declared war On Venezuela, We went to get a criminal who had been indicted in a US Court under our due process, and we're going to bring them to justice on American soil. We should applaud that. It's going to stop the killing of. Millions of people because you said that. The military action is not going to happen. (49:01–49:11)

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Asserts that the US operation aimed to apprehend a criminal indicted in a US Court to bring them to justice in the US.

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