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Nicholas Begich: “If they're not being produced in a place like Alaska…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

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Published | Video Starts at 03:49

We all walk around with a phone in our pocket or our purse, right? We've got a. We've got our vehicles that we're driving. We've got our homes that we live in. Those are resources. And If they're not being produced in a place like Alaska, they're being produced in a place like Afghanistan. Right. Where? Iran. Yeah. By children. That's right. They have very little regard to the environment. They have very little regard to labor laws. And yet the left wants to say, hey, out of sight, out of mind. (03:49–03:58)

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Asserts that if resources are not produced in Alaska, they are produced in countries like Afghanistan and Iran, often by child labor.

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