Mark Souder: “Sorry, audio missing.'' In other words, even in their editing they showed part of a tape with John Huang, who in this…”

“Sorry, audio missing.'' In other words, even in their editing they showed part of a tape with John Huang, who in this case is the person who allegedly made the statements about fund-raising there, and miraculously, like the missing Rosemary Woods section in the Watergate tapes, it is gone. We need to have immediate investigations into what has happened to these tapes because my impression, although we had a different impression at the time, was that what we were looking into, which was some purchases that were questionable and procedures in the WHCA office, that the reason the administration may have been stonewalling us long before this committee, the full Committee on Government Reform and Oversight ever looked at it, is they knew these tapes were in there and they have been stonewalling us long before March 4. They were stonewalling us way back to June. One of the things I also wanted to point out tonight is that one of the concerns that we have had is what are the linkages. As we talk about today's first hearing, we are going to be dealing with little pieces here and there that are hard to understand in the big picture. The big picture really has two parts. One is, has foreign money penetrated our system and what did we lose because that foreign money penetrated?…”