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Steve Cohen: the government was weaponized on that day--as I said, nuclearized--to take over the government, to overthrow the…

On the recordJuly 12, 2023
the government was weaponized on that day--as I said, nuclearized--to take over the government, to overthrow the government.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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Cohen describes the events of January 6, 2021, as an attempted overthrow of the government.

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