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Markwayne Mullin: “We have the most cancellations yesterday I think we ever had…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:12

Everybody that was wanting to go on vacation, now they're being affected. I mean, we see flights are going to continue to cancel more and more and more and more. We have the most cancellations yesterday I think we ever had in American history other than [post-9/11]. Patron 9 11. And this is very disruptive. Our economy's taking a tank. We went from a 4% GDP now to 1% GDP. This is, it's enough's enough. (03:12–03:17)

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Asserts that the number of flight cancellations was the highest since post-9/11.

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