John Hoeven: “Their visibility [National Guard's] is very effective as a…”

“You call the National Guard. They're trained to do this kind of work, and they're not the only ones helping out. They're doing an incredible job, and Their visibility [National Guard's] is very effective as a deterrent. But I was visiting with Secretary of Interior Doug Burgum, who's from my state of North Dakota, and I called him up. It was fairly late.” (01:35–01:40)

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