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Ruben Gallego: “This is not about narco terrorism.”

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

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'Trump wants us to go back to 1930s': Sen. Ruben Gallego

Published | Video Starts at 05:55

And even prior to this, I had gone on TV and after going to a couple briefings where I said that these guys are just setting us up for war. They are lying to now. This is not about narco terrorism. This is not about anything like that. The amount of, you know, of defense systems and platforms they had in the Caribbean was designed for them to put things in place for them to invade at some point and do regime change. (05:55–05:58)

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Asserts that the military action in Venezuela is not about narco-terrorism.

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