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Ron Johnson: “We fought and won World War II in a shorter time period.”

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

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Senator Johnson on CNN's Crossfire

Published | Video Starts at 09:10

It's just going to take them about a year to come online. It is going back to Keystone. It'll be like the Keystone XL pipeline. That permit has taken five years. No, but that is. We fought and won World War II in a shorter time period. I was just going to make the same point. I mean, we're now moving at a pace that is so bureaucratic and so cumbersome that if you're Putin, you're sitting … (09:10–09:14)

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Asserts that World War II was won in less time than current bureaucratic processes.

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