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Ron Johnson: “We're not gonna defeat them within 14 months, are we?”

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

Sen. Johnson at the Foreign Relations Committee

Published June 28, 2016 | Video Starts at 04:37

So we are moving at a tempo that I believe will lead to the ultimate defeat within 14 months of its three year game plan. I mean, We're not gonna defeat them within 14 months, are we? Well, I want to go. I want to go a lot faster than that. Out, I think out of. That's, that's, that's my point. We're not doing this fast enough, are we? (04:37–04:41)

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Questions the feasibility of defeating ISIS within the remaining 14 months of a three-year plan.

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