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On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
I could--any hostile country--and he said as a matter of fact I could take 10 engineers from U.C. Berkeley and I could shut down the electric grid between Boston and New York within four days.
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David McKinley
Republican · West Virginia

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McKinley references a shocking claim about vulnerability of the electric grid.

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