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Ron Johnson: “They just couldn't get rid of that crap soon enough, put it…”

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

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Commission Impossible: Senator Ron Johnson on DarkHorse

Published | Video Starts at 1:22:11

And they had debris going by a conveyor, and his job was to just pull out anything that looked like an electronic component. Now again, it's just a. Just a little tidbit of information. I thought that was quite interesting when They just couldn't get rid of that crap soon enough, put it on a barge to be recycled over in China within two weeks. But they're having. Yeah, volunteers, you know, government employee volunteers. Go through and extracting any electronic component. Why would they do that? Well, so let's fill this in. (1:22:11–1:22:19)

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Asserts that debris from 9/11 was quickly sent to China for recycling within two weeks.

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