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Todd Blanche: “This was not an invasion of a country. This was not us going…”

Featuring: Todd Blanche, Republican | United States Deputy Attorney General | National

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Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche defends legality of Maduro's arrest

Published | Video Starts at 00:46

The United States has an absolute legal right to go and arrest people charged with horrible crimes, including narcoterrorism, which is what these two individuals are charged with. And so This was not an invasion of a country. This was not us going in and doing something that violates any international law. It was us going and securing the arrest of two individuals wanted for very, very serious crimes in the United States. But as you know, there are a lot of questions about the legality of all this. (00:46–00:52)

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Asserts that the U.S. action did not violate international law.

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