Political Quotes

“Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk, and because my question references an earlier question, I have attached that earlier question as a reference to provide it to the Office of the Parliamentarian in case it should be of interest. The CHIEF JUSTICE. Thank you. The question from Senator Whitehouse is to counsel for the President: White House counsel refused to answer a direct question from Senator Collins and Senator Murkowski, saying he could only cite to the record. Five minutes afterward White House counsel read recent newspaper stories to the Senate from outside the House record. Could you please give an accurate and truthful answer to the Senators' question: Did the President ever mention the Bidens in connection to corruption in Ukraine before Vice President Biden announced his candidacy in April 2019? What did the President say, to whom, and when? Mr. Counsel PHILBIN. Mr. Chief Justice, Senator, thank you for the question. I don't think that I refused to answer the question at all. We had been advised by the House managers that they were going to object if we attempted to introduce anything that was not either in the public domain--so things that are in newspaper articles, things like that that are out there we could refer to--or things that were in the record. And so I can't--I am not in a position to go back into things that the President might have said in private, and there has been no discovery into that.…”