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Mark Warner: “You fire a third of the people that are supposed to be…”

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

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Senator Raises the Alarm about Trump's Attacks on National Security

Published | Video Starts at 16:47

The administration's own comments say, these are threats we can't avoid. Yet you dismantle the Foreign Maligned Influence Center. You fire a third of the people that are supposed to be responding to cyber attacks. You take FBI agents who are working on cyber and stick them on the immigration detail. This does not make America safer. Truth is, the pattern is unmistakable. (16:47–16:52)

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Asserts that a third of the personnel responsible for responding to cyber attacks were fired.

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