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Shelley Moore Capito: “They were sent to Washington to the call of duty to help…”

Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Capito Provides Update on West Virginia National Guardsmen

Published | Video Starts at 00:49

We are praying that on this Thanksgiving that we can have some good news as the time time moves forward. But they were targeted. They're peacekeepers. They were sent to Washington to the call of duty to help maintain the peace in our nation's capital. which from the last report you can see the statistics are down. And yet someone targeted them, shot them while they were surrounded by other Guard members. (00:49–00:56)

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Asserts that the National Guard was deployed to Washington, D.C., to maintain peace.

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