We'll break that down. We're also going to talk about legislation I introduced this week to protect Christians in Nigeria. Nigeria has seen … 34,000 moderate Muslims died from jihadist attacks [in Nigeria since 2009]. … pattern of targeting Christians, targeting Catholic priests, targeting individual men, women and children is horrific. And my legislation would put real consequences on the government of Nigeria and those who are facilitating this persecution put real consequences on them to change that. (01:32–01:41)
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