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Tim Kaine: “You release to the world in, like, promotional videos on the…”

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

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Kaine Joins CNN to Discuss the Trump Administration's Seizure of a Venezuelan Oil Tanker

Published | Video Starts at 03:49

The secretary, I heard him speak in California last week at a defense forum, and he said, well, we couldn't release that second video because we would reveal intelligence gathering, intelligence gathering sources and methods. Wait a minute. You release to the world in, like, promotional videos on the President's Truth Social page and almost in commercials, your braggadocious video about the actual strike that destroyed the boat on September 2. you've revealed the sources and methods. It was the same video stream that picked up the later attack on the survivors. But you're now going to claim that you can't release that. (03:49–04:04)

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