Summer Lee: “I do want to go on record that mandatory minimums have never helped anything.”

This is how dictators take power. They manufacture crises, undermine our institutions, and erode our checks and balances.

Right now, if we don't vote on this, or if we don't release these files, we're sending a message that if you are a powerful abuser... you'll be covered.

I think that they need to own it.

The release didn’t really give us a smoking gun, but it did produce plenty of collateral damage.