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On the recordApril 21, 2025
Mahmoud Khalil has lived in Syria under [Bashar] Assad. He knows what an authoritarian regime looks like. And he says this is it.
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Ayanna Pressley
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Pressley highlights Khalil's experience with authoritarianism to criticize the current administration.

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