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Ron Johnson: “The threat [of terrorism] is growing and we need to…”

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

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Senator Johnson on CSPAN's Morning Journal

Published | Video Starts at 28:55

Again, part of my problem is this president is putting us back on a footing pre 911 where they're treating terrorism as a crime and it's not. I mean, it really is far worse than that. And The threat [of terrorism] is growing and we need to recognize that fact. So that's one of the reasons, you know, when we actually, actually captured one of the perpetrators of Benghazi, rather than say we're going to put him on a ship … (28:55–28:59)

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