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Tim Kaine: “We had stopped the Iranian nuclear program with the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:12

I'm on the Armed Services Committee, and I'll put up a green light. But on something like this, that's unnecessary. We had stopped the Iranian nuclear program with the diplomatic deal that Donald Trump tore up. It's so unnecessary. And I'm going to fight to my last breath to make sure that we don't commit the mistakes of the past, not just the lessons of the past, the lessons of the very recent past. (06:12–06:18)

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Asserts that the Iranian nuclear program was halted by a diplomatic deal that President Trump ended.

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