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Eliot Engel: “When leaders break the law to preserve their own power and lash out and violently attack their own citizens, we must…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2020
When leaders break the law to preserve their own power and lash out and violently attack their own citizens, we must act.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel stresses the need for action against authoritarianism.

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