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Maxine Waters: “Based on what I am seeing, everybody is to blame.”

On the recordMay 9, 2023
Based on what I am seeing, everybody is to blame.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

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Waters addresses shared responsibility in the banking crisis.

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