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Lindsey Graham: “If I could follow along with that thought, because it is a very good question, No. 1, if the Secretary of Defense and…”

On the recordJanuary 16, 2014
If I could follow along with that thought, because it is a very good question, No. 1, if the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff publicly testified they knew it was a terrorist attack from the moment it started and told the White House, how did that get lost? How can they start talking about a protest and video when our own Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in real time tell the White House, but they only spoke to the President once with a prescheduled meeting just when the attack started? The Secretary of Defense---- Mr. McCAIN. We still don't know what the President did that evening.
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Lindsey Graham
Republican · South Carolina
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Jan 16, 2014

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