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Markwayne Mullin: “We had to reroute air traffic controllers so we could have…”

Featuring: Markwayne Mullin, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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SEN. MULLIN: 'We had to reposition assets to prevent them from doing this...' | Will Cain Country

Published | Video Starts at 16:00

They weren't coming in from the United States, they were coming in from Juarez. And so once we were able to position those, then We had to reroute air traffic controllers so we could have the jamming signals in place to be able to jam the drones. But we didn't want to affect the FAA air traffic. So we basically had to work with El Paso. It moved really quickly underneath Sean Duffy and his ability to adjust the assets that border patrol had in place. (16:00–16:14)

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Asserts that air traffic was rerouted to enable drone jamming.

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