"The leadership of the FBI and the DOJ are corrupt. I will name names. Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland are corrupt."
"Thank you for your willingness to stand on the wall."
"You're not sharing information that you've obtained with the minority."
"Mr. Friend raised concerns about using the SWAT team to arrest someone who was willing to turn themselves in, and the FBI takes his clearance."
"The American people know it."
"Congress needs whistleblowers like you so that we can conduct our oversight and correct course on these abusive Federal agencies."
"They want to send such a message that they said: If we can get this guy, we can get this guy to be quiet, we can get everybody to be quiet."
"You reported on the first big screw-up they had in this administration."
"They don't care. They want to send that message so hard, so strong."
"They want to send a message, don't they?"
"They want to make you an example, don't they?"