James Lankford: “There is wide perspective to be able to get rid of [the…”

“I think some of my Democratic colleagues are trying to make it sound like this is the point of all gathering of information for intelligence. It's not. It is a bureaucratic entity that, by the way, There is wide perspective to be able to get rid of [the Office of Director of National Intelligence] entirely because it literally slows down the intelligence gathering across all of our intelligence agencies. It is an experiment that was put in place after 9, 11 that I think in the days ahead there will be a decrease of those folks that are actually there.” (07:59–08:10)

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