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Bennie Thompson: “Last year's Russian campaign to hack our political institutions and interfere with the Presidential election was a…”

On the recordJuly 10, 2018
Last year's Russian campaign to hack our political institutions and interfere with the Presidential election was a blatant attack on our democracy.
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Bennie Thompson
Democratic · Mississippi

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Thompson describes Russian interference as a direct attack on democracy and criticizes inaction from Congress.

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