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Pete Buttigieg: “Making a false report like this is a crime.”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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Pete Answers Questions, Live on Good Morning America

Published | Video Starts at 03:21

But based on the facts as you know them, how did it even get to the point where they felt the need to go and question your children and take them away? Yeah, we have some questions about that. To be clear, Making a false report like this is a crime. And I hope that whoever did this is found and is prosecuted because this caused a huge amount of pain in our family. (03:21–03:25)

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Asserts that making a false report to authorities is a criminal act.

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