“We did some practice runs on what it would look like to look into [bombing Iran], because that may have had to happen under our watch as well.” Hochstein, a senior adviser to Biden, was born in Israel and formerly served in the Israeli military.
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The neoconservative talk host tried to normalize the use of nuclear weapons and now appears irate that the president hasn’t taken his advice.
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