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Ron Johnson: “Iran has been a malign influence, the largest state sponsor…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson talks Iran, border crisis on State of the Union

Published | Video Starts at 04:06

So you chair the Homeland Security Committee. You sit on the Foreign Relations Committee. Is the US Headed closer to war with Iran? I hope not. But let's face it, Iran has been a malign influence, the largest state sponsor of terror since its founding back in the late 70s. You go down the list of the Beirut bombing or the IEDs they supplied in the Iraq war, their involvement in Syria, in Yemen. (04:06–04:10)

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Asserts that Iran is the largest state sponsor of terror since the late 1970s.

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