Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, to my colleagues across the aisle, this is about the quality of the evidence. Surely everyone recognizes that the Oversight Committee is the body of authority of Congress that has responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. In the process of our committee work on the Oversight Committee, we seek intelligence and data from the executive branch all the time. Sometimes it is voluntary. Sometimes it requires a subpoena. In this case, we had to use subpoena authority, which we did. That is a process that we went through. It provided us a description of the evidence. A transcript is not an audio file; it is a description of an audio file. If you have a crime committed, in the evidence you are not going to look at a picture of a knife or a description of a bloody shoe or a glove. You need the knife or the shoe or the glove. We could provide our own description. We don't know if the transcript is accurate or not because we don't have the audio file. There is zero value to a transcript in a process like this without the original quality evidence. My attorney friends over there know this. As an investigator I say it is quite simple: Give us the original evidence. What do you have to hide? Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.”