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Marco Rubio: “It isn't necessarily what we should be focused on here. What we're talking about here is active measures, the active…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
It isn't necessarily what we should be focused on here. What we're talking about here is active measures, the active measures taken by the government of Vladimir Putin to influence and to potentially manipulate American public opinion for the purpose of discrediting individual political figures, sowing chaos and division in our politics, sowing doubts about the legitimacy of our elections.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio discusses Russian interference and its impact on American politics.

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