So I guess I am hearing from everyone that our current laws are sufficient for us to be able to do what we need to do in order to protect our citizenry, and address actors that may be seeking to do us harm, that we are in a place where we are not yet ready to approach these concerns in a way in which--the one thing about laws is they serve a lot of purposes.
Yvette Clarke: “So I guess I am hearing from everyone that our current laws are sufficient for us to be able to do what we need to do in…”
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Clarke discusses the sufficiency of current laws in protecting citizens from harm.
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