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Elissa Slotkin: “In the Pentagon, we basically mitigate risk by having…”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Debate Night in Michigan: US Senate candidates discuss the issues

Published | Video Starts at 40:23

We need the whole gambit. And I think for me, what's most important is to just take a very practical view of this. I worked at the Pentagon. In the Pentagon, we basically mitigate risk by having diversity of sources. Right. You never want to be just devoted only to one energy source because God forbid something happens and you run out of gas, you run out of fuel, so you have redundancy. (40:23–40:28)

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