Ron DeSantis

The American people here deserve to know why they were misled.

If you look at Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist, he said that impeachment was about the violation of public trust.

I think there were 1,000 unique emails that they were able to find off those tapes.

Although I didn't know it at the time, the first exposure I had to the IRS targeting scandal occurred long before that day in May 2013 when Lois Lerner publicly revealed the existence of improper targeting by the IRS.

Even Lois Lerner retired with full pension, even though she had been held in contempt of Congress.

So when you start talking about spending $18 million, what does it cost for gas to get to West Virginia and back? Fifty bucks? Sixty bucks?

Did the government, did the Obama administration use their powers, their police powers, their powers at IRS, powers to intimidate people because they disagreed with them politically?

What really does it for me is you had these backup tapes in West Virginia, and the Inspector General testified about what he did.

At best he just simply refused to avail himself of the proper facts, and came to Congress, and testified under oath, and made a statement that is just factually incorrect.

The commissioner has convinced me that he is not fit to lead an agency that is has so much power and influence over the lives of every American.

I appreciate your point about, you know, going to Gitmo, when I was in the Navy I was there for a time and it is a very professionally run facility.

I just think that it's frustrating because if a taxpayer treated the IRS the way the IRS has treated the Congress that just wouldn't fly.

I would think that Ben Rhodes would be falling all over himself to come here. I mean, he seems to think he is so much smarter than everybody.

Rhodes himself said that the Iran deal was going to be the ObamaCare of the second term.

I think part of this, yes, there is deception involved, and any time a major policy is sold to the Congress or the public, that is a major, major thing.

Had our government simply done its job, its core duties, you guys would have your loved ones here today.

I was disappointed in Director Saldana trying to say this is just political banter. It is not political banter.

We still have the authority to hold people, and when the public safety is at risk--and the frustrating thing is is that maybe we do need to do some reform in the Congress, but a lot of this, there are tools available right now that the…

You know, we in this country, the government at all levels has a responsibility to protect the safety of the American people.

it is frustrating when government is involved in all these other things and then fails at its core function.

I mean, in my case you got a homicide, you're going to let that person go with priors? Are you nuts? Just common sense.

I want to make it to Washington, D.C. one day. And I did, and I'm very happy about that because it--I don't see anything happening, any changes happening, you know, with our deportation rules and enforcement of them.

I think by that answer, you acknowledge, though, that the economic transactions are transactions with, effectively, the Cuban Government, the military, the intelligence services?

So why are you cutting the funds?

So the human rights situation, you spoke to it initially in your answer, but you acknowledge that the human rights situation is still very poor in Cuba. Correct?