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Pete Buttigieg: “They're corrupt and corruption is bad.”

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

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Pete Discusses Need for Major Structural Reform, Live from Chicago

Published | Video Starts at 33:41

I don't think that even though I strongly disagree with the administration and some of the policies they promote, are they bad guys? I mean, I'm gonna give the microphone to my friend Harold. They're corrupt and corruption is bad. So this is not about giving anybody a pass on doing something bad. But I do believe to what you were describing earlier, success doesn't just look like defeating people who are doing bad things, though we must do that. (33:41–33:46)

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