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Louie Gohmert: I thank my friend for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, the very things that my colleagues across the aisle are arguing…

On the recordJune 28, 2018
I thank my friend for yielding me the time. Mr. Speaker, the very things that my colleagues across the aisle are arguing could have been argued back in Watergate days and they would have kept Richard Nixon in office. Some of us on this side of the aisle don't care about party as much as we do about justice and the truth. And what we have found is that leading intelligence people and Justice people were lying. Clapper has been found to have been a liar, perjured himself; so has Brennan. And then we get more information that has been objected to, redacted, and we find out, whoa. These guys said this was for national security, and it turns out, when we get the information, actually, it was because it was embarrassing to the people objecting. Oversight is absolutely critical, and the last administration didn't have enough oversight, and, in fact, they obstructed. They were able to drag things out, so we never got to the bottom of things like Fast and Furious, when one of our own precious American agents was killed. There were no answers, and they are trying it again. But now we have this obligation to make sure that these documents that have been hidden are brought forward. And, yes, we have Mr. Rosenstein, who actually was involved in an investigation of Russia trying to get, illegally, U.S. uranium, and he worked with a guy named Mueller, who hired a guy named Weissmann to help in that investigation.…
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Louie Gohmert
Republican · Texas
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Jun 28, 2018

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