Last year you yourself recognized that perhaps arbitrarily firing hundreds of professionals at the National Nuclear Security Administration, whose job it is to safeguard our nuclear secrets and ensure the reliability of our weapons stockpile, was not the best idea in the world. We now have reports from practically every relevant sector that these personnel cuts at DOE have severely harmed the ability of congressionally mandated research and security programs across the department to carry out their statutory missions. but I suspect that was the point all along. I don't know how we can reconcile your vaunted expertise and in the energy sector with your absurdly inaccurate statements on … (02:57–03:13)
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