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Ron Johnson: “The military industrial complex has way too much power.”

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

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Defense spending is just by its nature inherently good. But what, what is that? What's all that money going to. Exactly. The military industrial complex has way too much power. I would love, and we should do this is we should go back at least as far back as Vietnam and analyze each one of these foreign entanglements, each, each of these foreign wars and ask ourselves and gather some basic information. (44:36–44:40)

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Asserts that the military industrial complex holds excessive power.

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