Tulsi Gabbard fact checks Tim Ryan after he inaccurately claims the Taliban attacked the U.S. on 9/11 DemDebate2020
Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii called out and fact-checked Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio during the first Democratic presidential debate on Wednesday evening, after her congressional colleague and fellow 2020 contender inaccurately claimed the Taliban flew planes into American buildings.
"We cannot keep U.S. troops deployed to Afghanistan thinking that we're going to somehow squash this Taliban that has been there, that every other country that has tried has failed," she said.
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