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Ron Johnson: “We spend almost $1 trillion on defense. My guess, a lot of…”

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

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He's obviously knows how to squeeze every inefficiency out of any process. So I'd love to see him take a look at the Pentagon, the military industrial complex. We spend almost $1 trillion on defense. My guess, a lot of that is misspent. Okay, I want to get this in as well, because the US And Russia are moving ahead with peace talks without Ukraine announcing a possible meeting between Trump and Putin by the end of the month. (07:12–07:18)

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Asserts that the U.S. spends nearly $1 trillion on defense and suggests much of it is misspent.

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