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On the recordDecember 7, 2014
I commend the president for acting because the intelligence showed an urgency to get in or they were going to kill this American hostage anyway.
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Mike Rogers
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Mike Rogers praises the president's decision to act on urgent intelligence regarding the hostage situation.

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