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Ron Johnson: “When you shut down an agroterrorism country, reduce the flow…”

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

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Republican US Sen. Ron Johnson on ICE, Venezuela

Published | Video Starts at 06:54

To the president's supporters who say that this is dramatically turning away from the President America's first message that he said on the campaign trail, how would you respond to that? When you make the Western Hemisphere a safer place, When you shut down an agroterrorism country, reduce the flow of narcotics that are killing tens of thousands of Americans, I'd say that's a good thing. I think that is America first. And so again, just on the precedent of this happening, you are not concerned that what we've seen in terms of the U.S. and … (06:54–07:05)

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