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Seth Moulton: “The armada was not there to actually stop the killings when…”

Featuring: Seth Moulton, Democratic | U.S. House Massachusetts, 6th Congressional District

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'The president is putting thousands of lives at risk': Rep. Seth Moulton on strikes on Iran

Published | Video Starts at 03:42

But nonetheless, he said, okay, we're not going to let the Iranian regime kill its own people. We're going to send an armada there. But the reason that The armada was not there to actually stop the killings when they happened a few weeks ago because it was in Venezuela. which is not in our national security interest. And now he says, well, we need to conduct these strikes because we are not able to get a nuclear deal. (03:42–03:52)

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Asserts that the U.S. armada was in Venezuela instead of stopping killings in Iran.

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