Rand Paul: “If there is no random improvement like that and you have that dramatic improvement, it should not take us 10 minutes to…”

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.

Surely, there needs to be a vote.

This is a war of choice, and it wouldn’t have been my choice.

A court ultimately would have to determine: Does the Fifth Amendment apply to someone who already has a pardon?