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John McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said he would not call the raid a success. “When you lose a $75 million airplane and, more importantly, an American life is lost \u2026 I don’t believe you can call it a success,” McCain, who was briefed after the raid, told NBC News<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-video","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":26,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1908],"class_list":["post-15448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":{"subheadline":"NBC News reports that The White House said Wednesday that anyone who questions the success of last week's deadly U.S.-led raid in Yemen \"owes an apology\" to the Navy SEAL who was killed there. 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