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Elissa Slotkin: “The intelligence community should be focused on foreign…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:01

You cannot target American citizens. If there's a legal issue, it goes to the FBI and they do that investigation. But The intelligence community should be focused on foreign threats, terrorism, nation states, etc. And I think, you know, it's almost unthinkable that, that we would have people in power who would not, I think, have the judgment to push back if the President asked them to do something illegally. (03:01–03:07)

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