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Gregory Meeks: “We can't have coups d'etat. We have got to speak out against coups d'etat in order to have democratic order.”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
We can't have coups d'etat. We have got to speak out against coups d'etat in order to have democratic order.
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Gregory Meeks
Democratic · New York

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Meeks advocates for speaking out against coups to maintain democracy.

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