‘Lot of jobs at stake’: CNN host pooh-poohs US senator’s opposition to Saudi Arabia arms sales

‘CNN host Wolf Blitzer appeared to play up the economic benefit of Washington’s $1.1 billion arms sales to Saudi Arabia, despite Yemeni civilian casualties cited by a US senator seeking to block the deal. Blitzer worried that halting the trade would cost jobs.
In a Thursday interview with Senator Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Blitzer confronted the lawmaker, expressing skepticism over his opposition to the international arms deal.
Paul is one of four US senators seeking to stop Washington’s $1.15 billion arms deal with Riyadh, arguing that this would result in “disaster and an escalation of an ongoing arms race in the region.”’
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