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On the recordMarch 21, 2017
All I can tell you is you just saw a wildly irregular action by the chairman of the committee charged with being objective and thorough in an investigation just fly down the street to the White House and, lo and behold, immediately thereafter, President Trump says that I've been partially vindicated.
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Jim Himes
Democratic · Connecticut

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Jim Himes describes Nunes' actions as irregular and suggests they were politically motivated.

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