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Jim Himes: “If we don't take a very strong and clear stance and retaliate, and I do mean retaliate, depending, of course, on what we…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2020
If we don't take a very strong and clear stance and retaliate, and I do mean retaliate, depending, of course, on what we learned about what the what the cost was to us, the Russian -- the whoever pulled this off, we'll do it again.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Himes emphasizes the need for a strong response to the Russian cyber attack to prevent future incidents.

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