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Tulsi Gabbard: “President Obama wanted to get authorization from Congress to…”

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Published | Video Starts at 03:07

And it took barely six months for them. I sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee at the time President Obama wanted to get authorization from Congress to start a new regime change war in Syria. I did my research, I listened to their briefings, I heard their case and came to the conclusion that this would be bad for the American people and bad for our security. (03:07–03:16)

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Asserts that President Obama sought congressional authorization for a regime change war in Syria.

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