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Ted Deutch: “But the big picture here, if we are numb to it, if we do a hearing on this dire crisis in a country where Assad has…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2020
But the big picture here, if we are numb to it, if we do a hearing on this dire crisis in a country where Assad has slaughtered over half a million people and there is no one who cares, with kids freezing to death right now, isn't, isn't the one idea to pull this all together and marshal our resources at the U.N.?
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Ted Deutch
Democratic · Florida

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Deutch highlights the urgency of addressing the humanitarian crisis in Syria through the UN.

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