THE LATEST: Senator Kim Calls Out Trump’s Cover Up in Iran, Demands Public Hearings and Immediate Investigations

WASHINGTON, D.C. –Last night onMSNOW’s All In with Chris Hayes,Senator Andy Kim outlined the dangers of President Trump’s reckless war in Iran. Before Congress, Senator Kim served as a career public servant in national security at the Pentagon, National Security Council, State Department, and a civilian advisor to top Generals in Afghanistan.
“This president has shown such disregard for the safety of our service members…The American people deserve to be told to their face that they are not going to see Americans on the ground in Iran.”
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Senator Kim calls for an immediate investigation into the deaths of six U.S. service members in Kuwait.WATCH
“When we see this administration and the lack of planning…the risk that they’ve thrown our service members into. For instance,the six service members killed in Kuwait.This was, by all accounts, a makeshift operation center. It was not a hardened structure from above.It did not have fully operational warning system for attacks. And what did we see?We saw attack directly upon them, and six service members killed. There should be more of an investigation in this.I think that this administration has tried to downplay the lack of security protocols that they had there.”
Senator Kim makes clear the risk to U.S. troops if boots are put on the ground.WATCH
“The idea that we would have boots on the ground where service members would be even more exposed…I was in Afghanistan and Iraq.I saw that the vast majority of Americans killed by Iranian agents were through IEDs, through these different types of attacks, based on Americans on the ground. It was not ballistic missiles that was the number one killer of Americans by Iran. It was these attacks on the ground, andour service members would be absolutely exposed.”
Senator Kim calls out Trump’s cover up of civilian deaths in Iran.WATCH
“I worked with my fellow members in Congress to set up a civilian protection center within the Department of Defense. What did Secretary Headset and the Trump administration do? They shuddered this center. They gutted in. So, you know, this is something that the Trump administration owns…This is a cover up by the president to try to change the subject, try not to have the Americans understand the costs of war.”
Read more aboutSenator Kim’s workto establish the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, to protect innocent civilian lives, that the Trump administrationhas all but dissolved.
Senator Kim calls for immediate public hearings.WATCH
“I am just sick and tired of this administration hiding behind these classified briefings. The vast majority of what I hear in these classified briefings can be said publicly, butthey intentionally do this as a tactic, to be able to prevent the American people from hearing and questioning what it is that they’re doing…because this administration knows that the American people are not with them.”
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