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Ken Calvert: “Well, you called it. It's the high ground. I mean that in…”

Featuring: Ken Calvert, Republican | U.S. House, California, District 41

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Hill & Valley Forum: Tom Mueller, Ken Calvert, Delian Asparouhov

Published | Video Starts at 09:40

Where does the downside of ceding the high ground to China or Russia actually affect people here in this room? Well, you called it. It's the high ground. I mean that in the environment we live in today, with the electronics that we live with, the Internet, our gps systems, our day to day lives are dependent on what happens in space. And obviously, the military is dependent on targeting on whole number of things what happens in space. Ultimately, we need to be sure that we're leading in that. (09:40–09:55)

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Asserts that modern electronics, the Internet, and GPS systems are dependent on space.

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