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W. Todd Akin: Okay, so it seems to me we have got a couple of different issues here that you brought up. The first question is, does…

On the recordApril 14, 2010
Okay, so it seems to me we have got a couple of different issues here that you brought up. The first question is, does it even make sense for us to do the ``what if'' question? If somebody does this, this, and this, well, we are not going to do that. What is that bias, you know, and is that really helpful? And particularly when these things tend to be nuanced the way they are phrased, it adds a lot of haze and uncertainty. But certainly answering that ``what if'' question probably doesn't make us a more secure country. But let's go to what I think is your second point.
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W. Todd Akin
Missouri
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Apr 14, 2010

Editor's note · Context

The speaker is discussing the implications of hypothetical scenarios in security discussions.

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