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Seth Moulton: “We're paying them to reopen the strait, which was open for…”

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

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It sounds like a real estate transaction, like we give them some money in exchange for some rights and property or something. That's what it sounds like. We're paying them to reopen the strait, which was open for all of history, at least modern history, until Trump came on the scene. Also, let's not forget that he had a deal handed to him that prevented Iran from ever building a nuclear weapon. And he threw that out. (01:01–01:11)

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