My point is that the administration and the DNC knew exactly who these people were, had known them for many, many long years, knew their contacts and I guarantee the gentleman, knew where this money came from, and walking into a Buddhist temple knowing that it was a fund-raiser and then walking out and saying, oh, well, I just really did not know it was a fund-raiser and I did not know I was getting foreign nationals is not a defense against the guilt of breaking the law, and the gentleman from Mississippi is making sure of the fact that you cannot claim blindness when there is a high probability you know that you are breaking the law.
Christopher Shays: “My point is that the administration and the DNC knew exactly who these people were, had known them for many, many long…”
On the recordJuly 14, 1998
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Addressing campaign finance violations during a discussion on political fundraising.
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