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Mark Warner: “Maybe we could have gotten [the bomber] earlier if they…”

Featuring: Mark Warner, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 14:05

… terms of undermining of the integrity of our intelligence community, ability to speak truth to power or the politicization of the FBI. Thank God we got that bomber today, but Maybe we could have gotten [the bomber] earlier if they hadn't fired the major leaders of all the parts in the FBI. and frankly, had not taken 45% of the FBI agent agents that were doing counterterrorism and put them on immigration detail. You know, we've never. You let in on this. (14:05–14:11)

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Asserts that firing major FBI leaders may have delayed capturing the bomber.

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