Tom Cole: “We've had three real assassination attempts aimed at this…”

“You know, one of the people, honestly, that was arrested for trying to kill President Trump, assassinate President Trump, was an individual who the Iranian government was literally trying to hire to kill the president. We've had three real assassination attempts aimed at this president plus this fourth one where we identified the Iranians trying to co-opt somebody. So again, disrupting the normal things and disrupting things like fisa, the Federal Intelligence Surveillance act puts Americans at risk.” (09:26–09:36)

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