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Tim Kaine: “The Pentagon was dragging their feet on not releasing files…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Kaine Joins NBC to Discuss the Epstein Files and Trump Threatening War Against Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 02:24

Would you support those steps going that far? Impeachment or contempt? I think that's premature. Here's, here's a recent example. The Pentagon was dragging their feet on not releasing files about the Venezuelan boat strikes. And so we put into the defense bill a requirement that they're either going to release or the travel budget for the Secretary of defense is going to be reduced. (02:24–02:31)

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Asserts that the Pentagon delayed releasing files related to Venezuelan boat strikes.

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