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Lois Frankel: “I'm going to ask a more basic, a 'living room' question which is my constituents sitting in a living room if they were…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
I'm going to ask a more basic, a 'living room' question which is my constituents sitting in a living room if they were listening to this what they would ask basically which is--and you can answer this in a general term, which is what are the immediate and long-term consequences to the United States and/or our allies if we just ignore Mali and the region and what's going on?
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Lois Frankel
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Frankel seeks to understand the implications of ignoring the situation in Mali.

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