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Pete Buttigieg: “This war was launched from, not from the Situation Room, but…”

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Published March 19, 2026 | Video Starts at 07:10

I mean, what do you think is going on inside the White House? Well, a lot of what's inside the White House isn't even literally inside the White House. Remember, This war was launched from, not from the Situation Room, but from Mar a Lago, a literal club for millionaires that the president owns as a side hustle. So I think that tells you a lot about whose opinions matter the most right now. And it's kind the Mar a Lago set, right? (07:10–07:22)

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“$200 billion in a country our size, it's something like 600 bucks for every man, woman and child in this country.”
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“On top of what's already the largest Pentagon budget in history.”
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“Every day, at least a billion dollars that we all literally paid going into the furnace of this conflict.”
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“Billionaires are paying much less than millionaires.”
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“A typical family paid about a thousand bucks to the government in the form of those tariffs.”
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“The Pentagon's reported 200 billion supplemental funding requests making the rounds right now.”
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“We are now at war. It's not as if we're at war. We are literally at war.”
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“American service members have been killed and Americans at home are paying the price.”
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“Higher mortgage rates, higher food prices, which are about to get even higher because of what's happening in agriculture, obviously higher…”
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“There's fresh reporting, I think just today that they're contemplating sending more troops into the region.”
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“When I got to Afghanistan as a Lieutenant, that was 13 years into the war.”
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“Iran never gets a nuclear weapon, which, by the way, was achieved by diplomacy before the first Trump administration blew that up.”
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“The Trump administration claims to have achieved by force almost a year ago now when the president assured us that the nuclear program was…”
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“This president arrived by promising his base that there would be no new regime change, wars in general, and many times saying that there…”
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“Even the highest counterterrorism official in the intelligence community said when he resigned in disgust the other day that there was no…”
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“The best alternative was the neutralization of their nuclear program through diplomacy. That was achieved now two or three administrations…”
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“You had the Obama administration, with our allies, with our partners, figuring out a way to have an Iran nuclear deal that kept them from…”
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“Trump blow that up and I think make it sound like he could get a better deal, failed to get a better deal, and now resort to force.”
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“The $200 billion they're talking about adding in to foot the bill for this conflict tells us is that you're kind of getting the worst of…”
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“We're going to need probably a completely new social contract in our economy because of what artificial intelligence is likely to do to jobs…”
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“We're going to have to redesign everything from our systems for handling international trade to our security frameworks and alliances.”
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“Making sure that you do get that support you need on your premiums for the ACA, for example, which is much more affordable.”
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“We're going to make sure that the wealthy are paying their fair share, which most Americans think we need to do.”
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“We're going to make sure that one job is enough, which means making sure your wages are good enough.”
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“We definitely need to take action to deal with money in politics.”
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“On artificial intelligence, one of two things is going to happen. Either it's going to lead to a shorter workweek and more money in your…”
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“Americans get a share of the enormous wealth that is being created in and for these firms.”
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“A lot of these corporations are literally paying zero because of all the loopholes and the write offs that they have.”
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“The IRS has lost capability to make sure people just pay what they're actually supposed to be paying.”
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“A high salary earner has to go back to the JFK years when your income taxed federally was like 80 or 90% on the top marginal rate.”
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“The folks who are getting away with the most are the folks who are actually much richer than quote unquote, ordinary millionaires.”
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“Every penny that we proposed in spending, we specified how we were gonna pay for it in taxes.”
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“The qualities of a fair tax code are that those who do the best contribute the most.”
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“A wealth tax is like a property tax.”
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“We called it Medicare for All who want it, you set up a public payer.”
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“If I'm right that it's going to be better than the others, then it will evolve into the single payer because everybody will want it.”
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“So much of the healthcare dollar is going not into patient care, not into directly making somebody better off, but into administrative.”
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“The White House killing energy projects right and left. That could be adding supply, adding capacity, by the way, adding clean capacity in…”
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“The American people have turned against the president, even on issues like immigration and the economy that he used to do well on.”
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“Things like AmeriCorps that unfortunately are being dismantled or defunded in this administration.”
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