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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort has been charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States, correct?

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

In my view that's not a question we should be asking, certainly from my standpoint.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

Now, Donald Trump, the Republican President, appointed Rod Rosenstein to that position of deputy AG, true?

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

For the last few hours we have sat in this hearing, and some of my colleagues, part of the Cover-Up Caucus, have attempted to peddle conspiracy theories that the investigation into the Trump campaign's potential criminality, where we were…

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

What are you guys complaining about? You know what happened. James Comey decided to play judge, jury, and executioner.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

It's a phony, fraudulent, and fake argument. Stop peddling lies about a so-called Democratic witch hunt to the American people.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

We live in a democracy, not an authoritarian state. Is that correct?

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

And Trump's former National Security Advisor, Michael Flynn, has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, correct?

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

There is not a scintilla of evidence that a witch hunt exists right now. In fact, if any, individual connected to the 2016 Presidential campaign was victimized by prosecutorial misconduct, her name was Hillary Clinton.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

I want to understand why my colleagues here in this room, in this committee, in the Judiciary Committee, and even in Congress are silent as we become enemies to our friends and friends to dictators.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

We are the people for whom this government has been organized. It is of us, by us, and for us.

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Hakeem Jeffries
@hakeemjeffries· Democratic · NY· Jun 18, 2018

I think we should have hearings about how the Trump administration is deporting their parents as those children remain wards of this country.

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Gary Palmer
@garypalmer· Republican · AL· Jun 18, 2018

And the State Department is so screwed up in the handling of classified information that if they had wanted to prosecute Secretary Clinton, that they would have had to prosecute 150 State Department people.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2018

No, too many of my Republican colleagues instead seem stuck in a perpetual Trump campaign rally, shouting 'lock her up' with the rest of the crowd, hoping that the public won't notice how little they have accomplished with their time in…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2018

We will not intentionally separate children from their parents. We will not do that. We are better than that.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2018

Silence can become betrayal. When you see something wrong, you've got to deal with it.

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2018

A lot of my constituents are baffled why, at a moment when the U.S. Government is separating thousands of children and parents at the border in a way that threatens to make us an international pariah, the Judiciary Committee and the…

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Jamie Raskin
@jamieraskin· Democratic · MD· Jun 18, 2018

The amazing thing is that the majority chose to reenter this maze when your report was perfectly clear on its findings.

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