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Claire McCaskill: “Part of the problem we face from a messaging standpoint is the efforts of our government to message and realizing that…”

On the recordJuly 5, 2016
Part of the problem we face from a messaging standpoint is the efforts of our government to message and realizing that our government is probably not the right messenger if we are going to combat an ideology that sees our country as part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill discusses the challenges of government messaging against extremist ideologies.

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