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James Lankford: “The Trump administration has removed them. They're going to…”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Joins Fox News Faulkner Focus

Published | Video Starts at 05:11

So the more we continue to call it out, myself, Chuck Grassley even wrote a letter to the FBI in 2023 specifically identifying the Southern Poverty Law center challenging them again to be able to get them removed. Obviously, The Trump administration has removed them. They're going to do their own data rather than outsourcing to a group like the Southern Poverty Law Center. to try to get information for them. It's so hard to imagine all of the fomenting of the hate in this country that didn't have to happen if the SPLC perhaps was not involved in this. (05:11–05:19)

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Asserts that the Trump administration stopped using Southern Poverty Law Center data and decided to gather its own data.

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