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On the recordJanuary 29, 2020
Mr. Chief Justice, I send a question to the desk on behalf of myself and Senators Cruz and Hawley. The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question is directed to counsel for the President: =========================== NOTE =========================== On page S660, January 29, 2020, second column, the following appears: The PRESIDING OFFICER. The question is directed to counsel for the President: The online Record has been corrected to read: The CHIEF JUSTICE. The question is directed to counsel for the President: ========================= END NOTE ========================= Is it true that Sean Misko, Abigail Grace, and the alleged whistleblower were employed by or detailed to the National Security Council during the same time period between January 20, 2017, and the present? Do you have reason to believe that they knew each other? Do you have any reason to believe that the alleged whistleblower and Misko coordinated to fulfill their reported commitment to ``do everything we can to take out the President''? Mr. Counsel PHILBIN. Mr. Chief Justice, Senators, the only knowledge that we have--that I have of this comes from public reports. I gather that there is a news report in some publication that suggests a name for the whistleblower, suggests where he worked, that he worked at that time while detailed to the NSC staff for then-Vice President Biden and that there were others who worked there.…
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