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Marco Rubio: “I guess to cut to the chase, Mr. Brown, if I were being deployed to Havana today to work in the embassy and I asked you…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
I guess to cut to the chase, Mr. Brown, if I were being deployed to Havana today to work in the embassy and I asked you, what can I do to protect myself from the sort of thing that has happened, you do not know what I can do to protect myself since we do not know what it is they used to attack them.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio questions the safety measures for personnel in Havana amid unknown risks.

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