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Ron Johnson: “What this administration has done in their quest to close…”

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

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Sen. Ron Johnson on State of the Union: Full Interview

Published | Video Starts at 04:13

Do you agree what we really need to do, and I've been down in Guantanamo Bay and I've talked to the people that do the interviews. And the way you actually gather intelligence that's effective is over a long period of time. And What this administration has done in their quest to close down Guantanamo Bay, we stopped capturing, detaining and questioning Islamic terrorists. Now we're doing some of that, we're starting to capture some of some of the Islamic terrorists, some of the ISIS operatives. Fortunately we captured one that was a former Iraqi chemical weapons expert. (04:13–04:21)

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Asserts that the U.S. stopped capturing and questioning terrorists due to efforts to close Guantanamo Bay.

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