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Pete Buttigieg: “They said billion instead of million and just overstated…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 41:41

I mean, if you look at the numbers, you know, journalists went back to look at some of that, the savings they claimed, and it turned out literally wrong. There's one case where they just. I can't believe this actually happened. They said billion instead of million and just overstated their savings by a factor of a thousand. This literally happened. I'm not making this up. We all make mistakes. Who among us hasn't. Who among us hasn't accidentally fired the people in charge of nuclear weapons safety? (41:41–41:47)

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Asserts that a government savings claim was overstated by a factor of a thousand.

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