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Jim Risch: “It's impossible to sit here and convey to you what this family is going through.”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2014
It's impossible to sit here and convey to you what this family is going through.
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Jim Risch
Republican · Idaho

Editor's note · Context

Senator Risch expresses the difficulty of conveying the struggles of Sergeant Bergdahl's family.

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