Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"If this were a IV-E investigation of a State foster care system, they would fail, and you basically would withdraw Federal money because there would be inadequate protections for kids."

"A couple of things, and I do want to get into this idea that the children are safe when they are in your custody because that is certainly not what we are hearing."

"I am concerned even beyond what happens with these kids when they are out of your custody, and we cannot seem to agree on whether you have any responsibility for them."

"You know what would be good is for you to backtrack on your original statement that kids in your custody are safe, that there is no mismanagement within custody, within those facilities of what is hap..."