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Gretchen Whitmer: “There were a dozen or so men in Michigan who identified as…”

Featuring: Gretchen Whitmer, Democratic | Governor of Michigan

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Live From the LBJ Library Season 2: Governor Gretchen Whitmer

Published | Video Starts at 15:54

The state police, who does my security and does security, you know, individual states for their governors. The head of my detail sat down with me and shared with me that there was this plot, that There were a dozen or so men in Michigan who identified as militia people. I think we should. It's better to call people domestic terrorists who take up guns and threaten their fellow Americans, and that they'd been infiltrated. (15:54–16:01)

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Asserts that a group of about a dozen men in Michigan identified as militia members.

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