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Jerry Nadler: “If the president has no good response to the allegations, then he would not want to appear before the committee. Having…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2019
If the president has no good response to the allegations, then he would not want to appear before the committee. Having declined this opportunity, he cannot claim that the process is unfair.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

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Jerry Nadler stated that the president's refusal to participate undermines his claims of an unfair process.

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