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Ceasefire: Former Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta and Mark Esper on Sending U.S. Troops to Iran
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4:44Now PlayingC-SPAN's Ceasefire — Former Defense Secretaries Leon Panetta (D) and Mark Esper (R) on whether the U.S. should send troops to Iran as part of the joint U.S.-Israeli combat operation against the Islamic Republic: "I just think it's a very dangerous mission," Esper said. "I'm not sure that we'd want to put the troops in that situation."
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