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On the recordMarch 14, 2019
What we are discussing is one of the most important documents that will ever be produced and given, potentially, to Congress for the American people in our modern history: a question of whether or not this administration was involved with the Russian Government, our number one foreign enemy, in influencing the outcome of our Presidential election, something tantamount to treason. The report needs to be made public because the American people have a right to know. The American people, as Ronald Reagan, to paraphrase, said: I paid for this microphone, the American people paid for this report, they paid for the special counsel, they deserve to see the fruits of his work and whether or not, as Richard Nixon said, their President is a crook, they need to know that. Unfortunately, as I sit here listening to this discussion, I feel like I am thrown back into a time in the 1970s--I think it was 1977, somewhere around there--in Kinshasa, Zaire, not in the Washington, D.C. capitol. It is the Muhammad Ali-George Foreman fight, and the other side, the Republicans, are playing the role of Muhammad Ali. Not the ``float like a butterfly, sting like a bee'' Muhammad Ali, but the rope-a-dope, sit back, take the punches, let them swing, let them hit you, because they know that eventually they will wear themselves out and they know the outcome, because the fix is in. There is a reason why the Attorney General was picked by this President, and we will soon find out.…
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

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