Rep. Marsha Blackburn told
Newsmax TV on Thursday called on President Barack Obama to "do what is right for the American people by defining our enemy and saying, yes indeed we are at war or war has come to America.
"It is in our communities and that has been told to us by the FBI," the Tennessee Republican told "Newsmax Prime" host Miranda Khan. "He should be able to say, 'We have to get in behind this and we have to defeat them.'"
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Blackburn referenced such killings as 9/11, San Bernardino and Chattanooga, Tenn. "We have to realize these are people who feel like that we, Americans, deserve to die.
"They are focused on carrying out their jihad.
"We have to put a stop to this," Blackburn told Khan. "We've got to define our enemy.
"We have to fight them there — and in order to fight them, we have to be certain that we are giving law enforcement and our intelligence community and our military all the tools they need."
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