Donald Payne actually said...

"The Trump administration's abuse of DHS authority over the last 4 years hurt the Department's reputation and disseminated--decimated, actually the public trust in DHS actions."

"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this timely hearing on a very, very important topic, and to the Ranking Member as well."

"Wouldn't part of that lessons learned be trying to assess the prior administration's lack of response to this?"

"To the extent that we had a rogue administration potentially in the White House, that also has to be assessed, correct?"