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James Lankford: “This is not going to take weeks this time. We're not going to allow this to be able to spiral out of control.”

On the recordJune 7, 2025
This is not going to take weeks this time. We're not going to allow this to be able to spiral out of control.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford defends Trump's National Guard deployment as necessary to restore order.

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