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Jim Himes: “If we'd had a, you know, 15 percent of that presence on January 6th, what happened would never have happened.”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2021
If we'd had a, you know, 15 percent of that presence on January 6th, what happened would never have happened.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes reflects on the security presence during the Inauguration compared to the events of January 6th.

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