Kendrick Meek: “Can I role play for a minute for the Republican majority? What they are doing in response here in this House to what the…”

“Can I role play for a minute for the Republican majority? What they are doing in response here in this House to what the gentleman has just pointed out that is public record, third-party validator, using the very words of these individuals. This is what the majority is doing. We read it in the paper. We are hearing it on the news. People all over the world are talking about these allegations. The indictment has quotes of individuals where they contradict one another as it relates to the outing of a CIA agent, but they are my friends. And even though they are not from my district and they did not vote for me, I have their back. Whatever the Democrats say and whatever they may write, or the ranking member of said committee of oversight that wants to review national security clearances for these individuals, I will do nothing to help in that environment to be able to bring about protection of national security clearance credentials for individuals that are questioned in these allegations. Not only will I not talk about it, I will not even have a hearing on it. As a matter of fact, I will not even allow a hearing on it. We would come to the floor and we would say, it is just the Democrats once again being negative, not being productive. All they can do is talk about things that are not of any consequence to national security. Now, that is what they are doing. That is what they are doing.…”