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Ron Johnson: “We've been trying diplomacy for 47 years with Iran.”

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

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US Sen. Ron Johnson on the war with Iran and its mission | Here & Now

Published | Video Starts at 05:57

What about the way people on the other side of the aisle are talking about how it should have been diplomacy that solved this? We've been, We've been trying diplomacy for 47 years with Iran. Obviously, it was never going to work. We could not allow them. And even the folks on the other side of the aisle will say, we can't allow them to become a nuclear power. (05:57–06:01)

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