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Markwayne Mullin: “We went on and adopted a 14-year-old boy that was my son's…”

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

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Senator Mullin on the Power of Mentorship: Why Showing Up Changes Everything

Published | Video Starts at 06:36

Which one do you think I love the most? Seriously, there is no difference. I can't even see a difference. But my wife was talking to me about those two girls and then We went on and adopted a 14-year-old boy that was my son's best friend, that his mom is in prison. His daddy died of brain cancer. He was raised pretty rough. And she's like, we're breaking a cycle, we're breaking a cycle. And I was like, what do you mean? (06:36–06:46)

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Asserts that they adopted a 14-year-old boy whose mother is in prison.

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