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Marshall Sanford: “It's incredibly disturbing, because leaving the legal issues and the federal election issues and all the other issues…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2018
It's incredibly disturbing, because leaving the legal issues and the federal election issues and all the other issues that people have been talking about, I think in the last segment you pegged it, which is fundamentally what we have going on is that the president has institutionalized, if you will, the idea of it being OK to tell a lie.
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Marshall Sanford
South Carolina

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Mark Sanford expresses concern over the normalization of lying at the presidential level.

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