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Ron Johnson: “Iran was saying that they've already, and they're crowing…”

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

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Sen. Johnson on CNN's Wolf.

Published | Video Starts at 03:50

You know, the administration was not exactly forthright in exactly how much, how many funds would flow into Iran, how soon. But we knew it was going to be tens, hundreds, 100 plus 100 hundreds of billions. Eventually Iran was saying that they've already, and they're crowing about it, that they'd already basically recovered or had access to about $100 billion. I think that's very foolish. Why would you want to inject that, that amount of capital into the economy and, and military of a self proclaimed enemy who the acknowledged largest state sponsored terror in the world? (03:50–03:58)

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