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Ron Johnson: “You forget the hundreds of thousands of people lost their…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 46:07

Yeah. So it just, it. It all becomes the rearview mirror. It's. It just all gets forgotten and you move on. You forget the hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in Iraq, in Afghanistan. And the people who really want to get the answers, I mean, the firefighters, the families of 9 11, they also pass. (46:07–46:12)

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Reiterates that hundreds of thousands of people died in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

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