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Ron Johnson: “President Obama and his administration shouldn't have lied…”

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

Senator Johnson on CNN's Crossfire

Published May 2, 2014 | Video Starts at 12:20

And Your party is 1,300 miles off talking about Benghazi on a different continent. Why are you guys so obsessed about that issue? President Obama, on a week like this, President Obama and his administration shouldn't have lied to the American people for weeks on [Benghazi]. that. They should have been transparent, got the story out, got it behind it, never made a mistake. And people, this was, this was, this was far more than this week. (12:20–12:24)

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Accuses Obama administration of lying about Benghazi.

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“We ought to build pipelines. We ought to export [natural gas] to Ukraine and Europe.”
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“We have to recognize what gives Vladimir Putin strength. It's his oil and gas reserves, Europe's dependence on it.”
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“We need to break that dependence. We got to break that monopoly.”
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“I'm talking about the LNG terminals. That will signal what we should be doing.”
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“The reason Vladimir Putin's doing this is he can do it with impunity.”
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“President Obama came in and rewarded Vladimir Putin for that aggression with a reset.”
Senator Johnson on CNN's Crossfire | Uploaded May 2, 2014 | 08:07-08:13
“I want us to provide defensive weapons, things like anti tank weapons to the trained members of the military.”
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“We want to see President Obama announced that he's going to allow those permit, those applications for those LNG terminals, those permits to…”
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“It's news. When you have an email from Bedroads. Pretty well. Pretty well being the smoking gun that it proves this White House, this is a…”
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“But we need to do more than that because economic pressure requires rationality on his part.”
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“When you've got an economy as large as Russia, you know, couple, couple trillion, there's a lot of interdependencies.”
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“We'll never put the type of crippling sanctions because it's a double edged sword.”
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“I don't think the Europeans will ever support the kind of sanctions that actually change Putin's calculus.”
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“The world actually does look for American leadership.”
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“North Korea's watching, Iran's watching, China's watching. They are all emboldened by our weakness, our lack of resolve.”
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“That was the White House saying they were, that President Obama was leading from behind. That didn't work so well.”
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“We certainly can't stop [Putin] militarily, and that's his choice. But we got to change his calculus.”
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