Mike Levin: “the issue here is not these individuals. The issue here is one individual who was properly indicted, properly…”

“the issue here is not these individuals. The issue here is one individual who was properly indicted, properly prosecuted, properly tried. There is no evidence that the FBI investigation was improper. There is no evidence here that the prosecution by the Department of Justice was improper. There is no evidence here that the trial was defective. The judge at this trial, a distinguished Federal judge, ruled that the evidence was significant and substantial enough to convict this defendant. As far as the other people who were fired, their legal fees have been paid and should be paid. That is not the issue. The issue is not errors by the White House in the firing of those employees. Those errors were made. They were conceded years ago. The legal fees relative to those employees have been paid, should be paid, and $50,000 of the amount of money in this appropriations bill completes that payment. The issue here is whether or not Billy Dale should get $450,000 for his legal fees when it wasn't the White House who investigated him, it was the FBI. And that investigation has been ruled proper by four different entities. It wasn't the White House which prosecuted Billy Dale. It was the Department of Justice, and their prosecution was perfectly appropriate based on what Billy Dale did, not on what the White House did.”