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As we finish one year and head into another I think it’s the right time to do two things.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I know here in Georgia we’re proud of our conservative record, we're proud of our low unemployment rate nationally, we’re proud of the economy starting to click back and look, as conservatives we havea lot of hard work in front ofus, we’ve got to figure out how to control crime not being in charge, we’ve got to figure out how to control inflation not being in charge, We certainly have our work cut out of us.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The remedy is not to have a professional wrestling-type carnival atmosphere, which is what congressional public hearings have become.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I've never been that interested in the total documents produced, unless I know the total number of documents that would be relevant.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am confident former White House Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Dan Coats, Ambassador Nikki Haley, FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others will be able to communicate to The President it is possible to conclude Russia interfered with The United States election in 2016 without delegitimizing his electoral success.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am confident former White House Director and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, DNI Dan Coats, Ambassador Nikki Haley, FBI Director Chris Wray, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and others will be able to communicate to the President it is possible to conclude Russia interfered with United States election in 2016 without delegitimizing his electoral success.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
If you have evidence of any wrongdoing by any member of the Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury, if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people... Whatever you got, finish it the hell up.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
If you have evidence of any wrongdoing by any member of the President Donald Trump campaign, present it to the damn grand jury, if you have evidence that this president acted inappropriately, present it to the American people... Whatever you got, finish it the hell up.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The drama does not help anyone, so if you're going to produce it, produce it -- if you're not going to produce it let us know, that's helpful information, too. And then( Oversight Committee Speaker Paul Ryan) has to decide a number of things. But when you push the issue, you're not getting the documents, you're going to court.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
When you make up mind that you're not going to charge someone, and you make up your mind that you need to not go in not loaded for bear... and there's not a single damn question on intent, it is really hard for those of us who used to do this for a living to not conclude they've made up their mind on intent before they even bothered to talk to the single best repository of intent evidence, which would be her.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
Three weeks after Clinton is exonerated by Comey, Strzok is leading the investigation into Russia and coordination with the Trump campaign, and damn this feels momentous. Because this matters. The other one did, too, but that was to ensure we didn’t F something up. This matters because this MATTERS.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It almost sounds like they were going through the motions with the Clinton investigation—but boy they sure were excited about the Russia one.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
Peter Strzok's manifest bias trending toward animus casts a pall on this investigation…His bias impacted his decision making and he assigned to himself the role of stopping the Trump campaign or ending a Trump Presidency, this is not the FBI I know.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump, president Trump Donald Trump in the Comey memos said if anyone connected with my campaign was working with Russia, I want you to investigate it, and it sounds to me like that is exactly what the FBI did.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I know you guys like subpoenas because it's Latin for drama. I want the information, i'm considering getting the information by whatever means I can get it.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with President Donald Trump.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
I think what the president is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward, if I were the president and I picked someone to be the country’s chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘Oh, by the way, I’m not going to be able to participate on the most important case in the office,’ I would be frustrated too.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
It wasn’t the tarmac, it was the information he had about Loretta Lynch that if it became public, people would question their objectivity.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There were a lot of things that called into question the legitimacy of that investigation, including what he's now making reference to, some of us have alluded to a lot in the past which is the real reason he had the July 5 press conference, it wasn't the tarmac, it was information he had about Loretta Lynch that if it became public, people would question their objectivity.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think we’re trending perhaps towards another special counsel.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Therefore, Senate Judiciary Committee creates this belief that there's something being hidden from the American people.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If you’re interested whether or not the dossier was used in court proceedings, whether or not it was funded by political opponents, you’ll want to see the memo.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
If you … want to know whether or not the dossier was used in court proceedings, whether or not it was vetted before it was used. … If you are interested in who paid for the dossier … then, yes, you'll want the memo to come out.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I don’t like bias. I don’t like political bias and this was an incredibly politically charged case as was, and is, the Russia investigation, so politics and political bias is even more important in a case like this. I don’t know why the left is straining to minimize the manifest bias that was exhibited by these agents. I just don’t get it.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘secret society’.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
There’s a text exchange between these two FBI agents, these two supposed to be objective fact-centric FBI agents, saying that perhaps this is the first meeting of the ‘ secret society,' so of course I ’m going to want to know what secret society you’re talking about because you’re supposed to be investigating objectively the person who just won the Electoral College ; so yeah I ’m going to want to know, he said. MORE THAN 50,000 TEXTS EXCHANGED BETWEEN FBI OFFICIALS STRZOK AND PAGE, SESSIONS SAYS It is n’t the first time the messages have raised questions about what may have been going on at the FBI. In one previously released message, Strzok appeared to make reference to an.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
As to the contractual agreement I have with a U.S. law firm, in 2015 and 2016, I did approximately 30 hours of work in total for the firm, that translates to less than 1.5 hours per month.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It's not inconsistent withher testimony.Whether or not that's true ornot, I can't tell you.But it's consistent with whatshe said.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Mr. Cummings and I have spoken twice this morning about our mutual desire to see the Secret Service funded and the agents treated fairly while acknowledging the difficult and important job they have.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
You examine a witness, you cross-examine the witness, you look for corroboration or contradiction, you don’t use anonymous sources and selective leaks and prejudge the outcome. What’s happening tomorrow, us interviewing a witness, is exactly what we should be doing. His statement is helpful, it provides a roadmap. I have additional questions both based on what he said and things that there were not said in his 11-page statement. But for those who are not used to seeing how the way investigations are supposed to be run, this is how they’re supposed to be done.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I think the most troubling part for me is when Director Comey would not assure us that there’s a leak investigation.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I ’m trying to help the public, and Director Comey, kind of narrow down the universe of people who would have had access to that information to then leak it.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Out of the 320 million people in our country, there are n’t that many that would’ve had access to the information.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
They didn't just push the delete button. They had them deleted where even God can't read them.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I didn’t see any questions on that, she said she did it for convenience, but I didn’t see the follow-up questions.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
While the emails have never been the focus of our investigation, it was necessary to obtain them, and this committee is the first and only one to do so, if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfeasance and numerous problems identified in this report are Exhibit A, and prove the committee has faced serial delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. Congressional Democrats spent most of the day on Wednesday playing down the State Department audit. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Secretary Clinton had acted in good conscience and that Secretary Clinton email practices were consistent with what past secretaries of state had done. The audit did not name any other secretaries who had done so. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, accused Republicans of attacking Secretary Clinton only because Secretary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It is deplorable that it took over a year for these records to be produced to our committee.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This investigation is about a terrorist attack that killed four Americans and it could have been completed a lot sooner if the administration had not delayed…at every turn.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Shame on them and everyone else who has demanded this committee to give up before gathering all of the facts.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
While no piece of legislation is perfect, the USA Freedom Act is critical to ending the unacceptable status quo and better protects Americans' civil liberties, the USA Freedom Act should be counted as a victory for those fighting for civil liberties and increased government transparency.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's ... OK to be hopeful as you are delivering the message of conservativism. You don't have to be angry, and you don't have to be upset; you can be hopeful.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
The potential consequences of us getting it wrong are maybe cataclysmic, we have to be right every time.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I don't know that she testified that much differently today than the previous times she's testified, their problem is they were so focused on justifying their existence and proving that they had something new, that they fabricated this whole parallel universe where Sid Blumenthal was the central figure in Benghazi.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I don't know that she testified that much differently today than the previous times she's testified.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Help us understand how Sidney Blumenthal had that kind of access to you, Madam Secretary, but the ambassador did not.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Madame Secretary, I understand some people - frankly in both parties - have suggested this investigation is about you. Let me assure you it is not, not a single member of this committee signed up for an investigation into you or your email system.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
There is no theory of the prosecution, this is not a prosecution.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I have told my own Republican colleagues and friends, shut up talking about things that you don't know anything about. And unless you're on the committee, you have no idea what we've done, why we've done it and what new facts we have found.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Benghazi embassy denied more security, per ambassador emails - Fox News First.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential front-runner, is scheduled to testify Thursday about her role as secretary of state during the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on a U.S. outpost in Benghazi, Libya, in which Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were killed. Trey Gowdy said Sunday that the 12-member bipartisan committee has acquired Stephens ’ emails from that time and suggested dozens more witnesses will be called. Clinton is an important witness, but she is one witness, i understand that there's more attention associated with her. But from my perspective, I am much more interested in Chris Stevens ' emails, which we just received, than I am Chris Stevens ' emails, which we just received.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I get that she gets more attention than the other 69, but frankly, if you ask me, the eye witnesses on the ground that night in Benghazi are more important to me as a former prosecutor than the former secretary of state.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
She's a witness. She was the secretary of state. You have to talk to her, we've already talked to 50 people not named Clinton. We're going to talk to another couple of dozen not named Clinton.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
But frankly, if you ask me, the eye witnesses on the ground that night in Benghazi are more important to me as a former prosecutor than the former secretary of state.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
This isn't about Tim Scott playing kingmaker. If you know him, he is willing to make everyone else the star, kingmaker would be the antithesis of what Tim Scott is. There is not a self-promoting bone in his body.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I asked him once, have you ever been stopped in a circumstance when you thought you weren't doing anything wrong. He goes, 'all the time,' i never had to live with that. I don't know what that feels like. Nobody has ever stopped me walking into the Capitol, making sure I was credentialed. If there is a bitterness about it, he keeps it incredibly well concealed.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Because I do not know him, and cannot recall ever speaking to him, I can say for certain he was never instructed by me to focus on Clinton, nor would he be a credible person to speak on my behalf.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This committee always has been and will be focused on the four brave Americans we lost in Benghazi and providing the final, definitive accounting of the Benghazi terrorist attacks for the American people.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I've never run for any leadership position and I'm not going to start now.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
When the bureau is through with the server, I hope they turn that server over to the Inspector General so they can determine whether or not the record is full and complete.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I get that they (Clinton's team) are frustrated. I get that they are disappointed that her polling numbers are almost as low as Congress' -- but they need to look no further than her.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
As a condition of postponing the hearing, we made the reasonable request for a significant production of documents.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
If the State Department does not fulfill this production, or if production continues to be anemic and underwhelming, we will move forward with scheduling a compliance hearing before the Committee.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton’s self-selected public record and raises serious questions about Hillary Clinton decision to erase Hillary Clinton personal server — especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third party arbiter.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Not only was [ Blumenthal ] providing unvetted, uncorroborated, unsubstantiated intelligence to our top diplomat, he was just simply forwarding on intelligence that somebody by the name of Tyler Drumheller was sending him.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
This has implications far beyond Libya, Benghazi and our committee's work, this conclusively shows her email arrangement with herself, which was then vetted by her own lawyers, has resulted in an incomplete public record.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton's self-selected public record and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server -- especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third party arbiter, this has implications far beyond Libya, Benghazi and our committee's work. This conclusively shows her email arrangement with herself, which was then vetted by her own lawyers, has resulted in an incomplete public record.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
Once again the Benghazi Committee uncovers information that should already be part of the public record but was not made available to the American people or congressional investigators, for that reason, the committee has made the decision to release the latest set of Clinton's public records unearthed by the committee.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
I fail to see how we're playing politics by talking to someone who sent a large number of memos to the top diplomat we had during the relevant time period.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Not only was [Blumenthal] providing unvetted, uncorroborated, unsubstantiated intelligence to our top diplomat, he was just simply forwarding on intelligence that somebody by the name of Tyler Drumheller was sending him, he didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Secondarily, she used the word unsolicited, megyn, when these emails are released, I want you to count the number of times she says.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
He didn’t know if the sources were legitimate, he didn’t know whether or not the information had been corroborated. He was merely a conduit between somebody who may have had a financial interest in Libya and our nation’s top diplomat.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The best way to answer all questions related to the attacks in Benghazi continues to be having access to the full public record, not a 'record' controlled, possessed and screened exclusively by Secretary Clinton's personal lawyers.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The legislative branch’s constitutional toolbox seems inadequate to uphold out task in seeking the truth.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
While our investigatory approach has uncovered new witnesses, new documents, new facts and will result in the most detailed and complete accounting of what happened in Benghazi, the frustration that some feel at not seeing the work unfold on television or reading about new discoveries in print is understandable, the approach we are taking, while short on drama, aims to discover all of the relevant facts and to be long on credibility when the final report is written.
Found on CNN 8 years ago
That assumes the report would be critical of [Clinton] and I don’t make that assumption because we’re still in the process of gathering facts.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Secretary Clinton's decision to seek the presidency of the United States does not and will not impact the work of the committee. We have said all along we need to ensure we have her complete record.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
The committee has Mr. Kendall's letter under advisement and will issue a response tomorrow setting out a reasonable path forward with respect to Secretary Clinton's appearances to discuss both Benghazi as well as congressional efforts to ensure the public record is complete with respect to her tenure as Secretary of State.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
If the committee had called former Secretary Clinton when Democrats and her attorney first encouraged us to, the committee would not have had possession of the 300 emails we now have or known about her exclusive use of a personal server and email account to conduct official business.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
This Committee is left with no alternative but to request Secretary Clinton appear before this Committee for a transcribed interview to better understand decisions the Secretary made relevant to the creation, maintenance, retention, and ultimately deletion of public records.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
While it is not clear precisely when Secretary Clinton decided to permanently delete all emails from her server, it appears she made the decision after October 28, 2014, when the Department of State for the first time asked the secretary to return her public record to the Department, not only was the secretary the sole arbiter of what was a public record, she also summarily decided to delete all emails from her server ensuring no one could check behind her analysis in the public interest.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
An independent analysis of the private server Secretary Clinton used for the official conduct of U.S. government business is the best way to remove politics and personal consideration from the equation, having a neutral, third-party arbiter such as the State Department IG do a forensic analysis and document review is an eminently fair and reasonable means to determine what should be made public.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Her arrangement places her as the sole arbiter of what she considers private and what is beyond the view of the public.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The responsible thing to do is to ask her and ask the State Department to produce a copy of it. And if she did not sign it, ask her why she did not sign it. And if she did sign it, we'll go over the document with her.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I just can't trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public is getting everything they're entitled to.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
But who gets to decide what's personal and what's public? And if it's a mixed-use email and lots of emails we get in life are both personal and some work, I just can't trust her lawyers to make the determination that the public is getting everything they're entitled to.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
She said she went through and produced all public information -- and I am not in the habit of accusing people of being untruthful unless I have evidence to the contrary -- but she's essentially asking us to take her word for it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
She said she she went through and produced all public information -- and I am not in the habit of accusing people of being untruthful unless I have evidence to the contrary -- but she's essentially asking us to take her word for it.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It wouldn't be reasonable that she was on her way to Libya to discuss Libyan policy and there are no emails from that trip.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
Secretary Clinton alone created this predicament, but she alone does not get to determine its outcome.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
It's not up to Secretary Clinton to decide what's a public record and what's not, we're not entitled to everything.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
If you think to that iconic picture of her on a C-17 flying to Libya -- she has sunglasses on and she has her handheld device in her hand -- we have no emails from that day. In fact, we have no emails from that trip.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
These are public records, and we should be able to access them.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The fact is, the State Department cannot certify that they produced all of Secretary Clinton’s emails because they do not have all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails nor do they control access to them.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The fact is the State Department cannot certify they have produced all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails because they do not have all of former Secretary Clinton’s emails, nor do they control access to them.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I am announcing an ambitious timeline for interviews consistent with my plan to speed-up the pace of the investigation i intend to stay with this schedule and will issue subpoenas if necessary.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Letters haven't worked. Southern politeness hasn't worked. We're going to ratchet it up.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
What I am not going to do is ask my colleagues to question (Clinton) when they don't have all of the relevant documents and emails. We don't have the emails.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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