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Mike McCaul: We can kill 50,000 ISIS fighters, as we have, in the caliphate, but we need to kill the ideology.

On the recordMarch 27, 2017
We can kill 50,000 ISIS fighters, as we have, in the caliphate, but we need to kill the ideology.
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Mike McCaul
Republican · Texas

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McCaul stresses the need to address the ideological roots of terrorism.

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