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On the recordJuly 13, 2016
Right now, there is no policy. There is no policy that you can describe to me as to what we would do about an impending attack or what we would do about an attack. There's a vacuum there.
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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McCain highlights the absence of a policy regarding responses to threats.

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