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Richard Blumenthal: “The President's under pressure because he's going to China…”

Featuring: Richard Blumenthal, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Connecticut

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But what we're more likely to see as a result of this exchange of papers is simply an agreement to try to seek an agreement. And The President's under pressure because he's going to China on March 14 and he wants some progress before then. He has made a fundamental miscalculation that bombing alone would accomplish his objectives. Those objectives have been shifting and contradictory. Securing the enriched uranium, changing the regime, destroying the missile production capacity, halting the terrorist attacks. (01:10–01:18)

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Asserts that the President is under pressure to make progress before a trip to China on March 14.

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