Ruben Gallego: “I still believe we have a moral imperative to help those…”

“I do, like many of you here, applaud our troops for the tallest effort to evacuate American citizens, our allies, Afghan citizens, and everyone threatened by the Taliban. And I still believe we have a moral imperative to help those [who] helped us in Afghanistan. And I, and many of us, will do everything in our power to continue to do that.” (00:42–00:47)

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