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Ed Royce: I call it ransom, because that is what Iran demanded.

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
I call it ransom, because that is what Iran demanded.
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Ed Royce
Republican · California

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Royce asserts that the payment to Iran was effectively a ransom.

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