Kerry may blow off House testimony on video edits

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The State Department hinted on Tuesday that Secretary of State John Kerry may skip an invitation to testify before Congress about how a 2013 press briefing video was edited to remove a key discussion about the Iran nuclear agreement.

On Monday, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, asked that Kerry testify about the incident, which the State Department called a “glitch” for three weeks before finally admitting it was an intentional edit.

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