John Cornyn: “They must know what they're talking about, Mr. Chairman.”

We didn’t have the authority to sort that out.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

He’s lazy and doesn’t raise money. And he basically is not offering a very compelling case for his election.

I think we were very close to resolving our differences in a way that was acceptable to the Department of Justice, but it’s clear that the president decided that was unacceptable.