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Ron Johnson: “New York Times reported that the people that liberated the…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Johnson at the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on International Operations

Published | Video Starts at 05:33

But you're absolutely right that. That. That doesn't stop it at its heart. It just mitigates the suffering on the other side. A quick example to make my point. New York Times reported that the people that liberated the Mosul Dam, when they went into that region, they found women naked, bound, had been raped repeatedly. Now, I don't like talking about that. I don't like laying that out. But is that the kind of information that Americans need to face that kind of reality if we're going to really rise the challenge? (05:33–05:47)

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Asserts that a New York Times report described atrocities found by liberators of the Mosul Dam.

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