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Pete Buttigieg: “There's something wrong with masked federal agents going…”

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

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Pete Takes Questions, Live from Tulsa

Published | Video Starts at 12:29

Left and right, you're just bothered by a sense of right and wrong. And you think to yourself that there's just something wrong not because of politics but just because this is a free country. There's something wrong with masked federal agents going around the streets of American cities demanding to see people's papers. Maybe you're here because you hate corruption and that's not a Democrat or a Republican thing for you. (12:29–12:38)

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Asserts that federal agents are demanding identification in American cities, implying a violation of civil liberties.

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