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Ron Johnson: “We ought to seriously consider, from my standpoint, drawing…”

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

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Sen. Johnson on the Situation Room

Published | Video Starts at 06:23

And I think we need to put ourselves in a position to strengthen defenses of certainly South Korea, Japan. And We ought to seriously consider, from my standpoint, drawing a red line and saying any time North Korea engages another ballistic missile test, we're going to fire it, we're going to knock it down. Senator, we have more to discuss, including there are new developments involving the president's travel ban. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back. (06:23–06:34)

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Suggests establishing a policy to intercept North Korean ballistic missile tests.

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