Rand Paul: “I think we need to restate for the record and be very clear here that neither this panel nor anyone on the Committee has…”

This level of dishonesty, I think, needs to be exposed.

We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence.

We will hand carry this over to the attorney general. We will hand carry this to the district court here in (the District of) Columbia.

I plan on sending it directly with the legal brief supporting the argument to the Department of Justice.