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Ceasefire: Former Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta and Mark Esper on Iran
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3:20Now PlayingC-SPAN's Ceasefire — Former Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta (D) and Mark Esper (R) on their views of the progress of the joint U.S.-Israeli combat operation in Iran: "This President uses words like 'obliterated,' 'decimated,' et cetera, only to find that that hasn't happened," Panetta said. "I think it's fairer to say that they are probably doing a good job of degrading Iran's war-making ability."
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