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Jeff Flake: “Any time that you stand and say, I own the shutdown, then you own it.”

On the recordDecember 27, 2018
Any time that you stand and say, I own the shutdown, then you own it.
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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Senator Flake discusses President Trump's responsibility for the government shutdown.

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