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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Had it been a matter of him just saying, yes, I asked for their resignation, we have some other needs, we are moving in…”

On the recordMarch 26, 2007
Had it been a matter of him just saying, yes, I asked for their resignation, we have some other needs, we are moving in a different direction, whatever he said, just be straight with the American people. Just be straight with the Congress. If he had said, yes, I asked for their resignation, I can do that, I am the President. Fine. But, instead, it is fabrication, it is distortion, it is no, it was not him, it was the guy behind the tree. It was his mother. Just own up to what you did.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the U.S. Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney scandal.

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