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Ron Johnson: “We had to move against Iran. We had to act before they…”

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

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Plus inflation, plus population, there's literally hundreds of billions of dollars that we ought to be looking at and paying for offsetting anything we have to do, which for the top priority government, which I think is defenseless nation. And listen, I think We had to move against Iran. We had to act before they became a nuclear power. or had so many missiles, so many drones, they would wreak devastation. They're already doing enough, you know, destruction, but it'd be devastating. So we had to act. (08:42–08:51)

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Asserts that action against Iran was necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear power.

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