But when you come to this country illegally, you need to be held accountable, and we need to be eyes wide open that a country that we used to call a near peer threat just five years ago, peer threat five years ago, We now call [China] a peer threat. And I have seen all of. I have every clearance in the world. I have seen poor classified data. It's like the opposite of a therapy session. (1:50:26–1:50:30)
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Claims that China is now considered a peer threat to the U.S.
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