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Tim Kaine: “If there was evidence that these folks were narco…”

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Tim Kaine Reveals That Some Republicans Will 'Be Considering' Voting For His War Powers Resolution

Published | Video Starts at 01:08

When you do an international strike and there are survivors and instead of prosecuting the survivors, you return them to Colombia and Ecuador and then they're set free because there was no evidence against them. If there was evidence that these folks were narco traffickers, the US Would have detained and prosecuted them. The fact that they didn't either means A, there was no evidence or B, they were worried about could they assert a legal rationale in court for the actions that they had taken. (01:08–01:15)

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Asserts that the U.S. did not prosecute alleged narco traffickers due to lack of evidence.

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