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Wes Moore: “We've lost a significant amount of leverage [due to the war…”

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Published | Video Starts at 49:07

I said, let me go back and take a look at it. And da, da, da. And then we just get something back saying, again, we were denied. We've lost a significant amount of leverage [due to the war in Iran]. And we've lost significant amount of leverage in two ways. One, we've lost the moral leverage because of the conversation. The second piece is I think we've lost the military leverage. (49:07–49:19)

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Asserts that the U.S. has lost leverage because of the war in Iran.

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