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Maria Cantwell: “We made mistakes by allowing an infiltration that could be…”

Featuring: Maria Cantwell, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Washington

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Protecting America's Spectrum: A Fireside Chat with Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA)

Published | Video Starts at 18:06

And so you want to be able to create that layer of, of a secure system. And again, if you aren't making it secure. And we all know from the Huawei example, like We made mistakes by allowing an infiltration that could be from a company backed by a foreign government, in China's case with Huawei. So we had to say, look, we can't have that. We can't have that. I do think everybody on the Hill gets that. Okay, we can't have, we can't have Huawei equipment. (18:06–18:19)

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Asserts that allowing Huawei's infiltration was a mistake due to its backing by the Chinese government.

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