Chuck Hagel actually said...

We are at the conversations with the Russian government on protection of our citizens, of course. If we need to extract our citizens, we will have appropriate arrangements with the Russians to do this.

Context

Chuck Hagel discusses plans for the safety and extraction of American citizens during the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

01/23/2014

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