Steve Kagen: “Well, I thank you for yielding. There were two very valuable lessons that I learned during my campaign and election to…”

“Well, I thank you for yielding. There were two very valuable lessons that I learned during my campaign and election to Congress. The first lesson was that people will believe a lie if it's represented to them with great skill on television repeatedly. People will believe something that just simply isn't true. Here, the kind way of putting it is misrepresentation of reality. I am continuously amazed at how people are misrepresenting reality. We have never gone dark in our intelligence community. We have continued to survey those who seek to attack us and do us harm. We must stand strong behind our Constitution, and most especially our fourth amendment rights, which reads, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons and things to be seized." Now if someone in the United States is seeking immunity, I ask my colleague, Mr. Perlmutter, what could be the reasons for seeking amnesty or immunity?”