“If in my passion and in my emotion I said something that was in any way hurtful, I’m sorry about that. That was not my intention. But I also want to be clear, I have no regrets about calling out this danger and saying we’re going to be dealing with it very, very aggressively,” he said at a press conference Wednesday.
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