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Shelley Moore Capito: “This is not listening in on American citizens. This is…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 01:35

Those options, but the preferred options and certainly the best legal option is to have this confirmed so that we can have it for the next three years, which is the goal. And this, you know, people need to realize This is not listening in on American citizens. This is foreign people, foreign actors in foreign lands that are trying to disrupt and terrorize and figure out cyber crimes and other things to disrupt our national security. We've got a Fed meeting today once again, Senator. And of course oil and gas prices, energy prices broadly are going to be part of the conversation as we can … (01:35–01:50)

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Asserts that FISA targets foreign actors, not American citizens.

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