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Ruben Gallego: “The Afghan government is not getting better, the Afghan…”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

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Published | Video Starts at 11:03

But I only had so much information in front of me, you know, save for the fact that I had a lot of friends that were still in the war that would tell me that, no, The Afghan government is not getting better, the Afghan military is not getting any better. But, you know, when you have only so much information, you have to make your decisions based on just the information they have in front of you. (11:03–11:09)

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Asserts that the Afghan government and military were not improving.

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