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partly yessir
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what is your understanding of what this committee's been asked to
do
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my understanding is that the committee has been asked to
review
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the incidents related to dating I see attacks in
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college the as you described at the beginning in all of the
aspects
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it seeks so your understanding is that we have an ass to look at
all
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policies decisions and activities that contributed to the
attacks
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certainly that's our understanding and
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Mb we support providing information related
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that affected our ability to prepare for the attacks but if that's
akin
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if that's the ultimately the decision brothers ride
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brother resolution right you're not disagreeing with my in
2008
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resolution for you we defer to you the committee's direction
on
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on helpless person clothing executive branch efforts to identify
and bring to
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justice the perpetrators of these attacks did you read that the
resolution
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sir I don't have it in France I can't quite happy
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thrilled to get your copy the resolute for the meantime use gonna
have to take
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did it also says executive branch efforts
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to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of these attacks
that
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in the resolution can you tell me specifically how
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our interviewing witnesses is going to jeopardize the
prosecution
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sir their department just has been clear with I'm asking you
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it was in your opening statement I'm asking you you tell me
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a former prosecutor how our interviewing witnesses that have
already been
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interviewed by the AARP
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already been interviewed by the best practices panel and frankly
already been
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eater what I am is the chief liaison to the house for the State
Department
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blame conveying is that the justice department has told us
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that this could have an impact they would like to have a
conversation
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with you in your committee about that what do you do you believe
that congress
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has the constitutional authority to provide oversight
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every day I do that with my job yes
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to you you do agree with that what is your
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interpretation of the phrase all policies decisions and
activities
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in any context about contributed to the attacks
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what is your understanding all policies all decisions all
activities
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we're taking a states permit is to provide materials to the
committee
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at the direction of the committee the request for interviews
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that you have reiterated here today I am
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explaining that the justice department is said they would like to
have
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conversations with the committee
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for the concern about the protest aerobic welfare love these
Asian
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our shoppers all ask you something okay because there or
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toil people up here who may not agree on another single solitary
thing
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but every one of us agrees that we don't want to do anything to
jeopardize
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the physical security %uh anybody who works for this
government
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nor does anybody on this diana's want to do anything to jeopardize
an ongoing
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okay can we stipulate that that nobody to do either of those
things
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certainly you also stipulate that you can talk to witnesses
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while preserving their I their identity not jeopardizing an ongoing
prosecution
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I am confident that in the conversations between the Justice
Department committee
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that those modalities can be discussed
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I strode expert ours for a bit you do you see the justice
department at this
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no sir do you know why they're on at this hearing
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no sir because we don't have any issues with them that's why
they're not here
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you just cited a reason to deny access to witnesses
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even the justice department has incited so what I want you to
do
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help this committee gain access to precisely the same
witnesses
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that everyone else from the AARP to the best practices panel to
your
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own agent who compiled a training video
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had access to the witnesses sir at
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as I said in my opening statement we are happy to have the
conversation with your
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engage on this and that is something that we're open to
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we have never said no for I project at appreciated
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um but but i wanna make sure that you and I have a clear
understanding with
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it's six people observed an important that you were being asked to
write a
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final definitive accounting
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other to bed how many the six would you want to talk to serve
the
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I understand it's not a trick question I i kno such a question and
I understand
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the point and this is why
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we are all know if you want to sell I want provided the quantity of
documents
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and works include usual
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press room we're gonna get we're gonna get to the quality documents
in a minute
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you said forty thousand that's an impressive number
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that's forty copies %uh Doctor Zhivago that's forty copies a crime
and
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punishment that's a lotta that's a lot of pages
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forty thousand out of how many that's our question how many
documents
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is forty thousand have is it all is it two-thirds
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we have made a a a comprehensive search and as you know
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the state department's pants 275 missions overseas
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70,000 I do about asking you to be our ambassadors I
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upper head about I'm not asking you to bringing ambassadors back to
search for
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on not a single one how many employees Associate Partner
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roughly 70,000 seventy thousand correct
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ride and we ever ask for emails from 7
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more principles do you think that that is a reasonable request when
you have
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all policies all activities and all decisions but
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in in your in your committee's December letter
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where name press pause first many in fact all of those
principles
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have they are emails there are documents related to them
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in that 40,000 in addition UN is that your testimony that we have
all the
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well so we've asked for what you and your colleagues prioritize
sec
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former secretary Clinton's emails and that is our priority is a
state in
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well I would say multiple email if there are multiple email
accounts with more
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that emails and going we we agree and we are
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by as a as for you may have noticed my colleague from maryland used
the word
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a fine that upon these are the word intersting
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when you vote against constituting a committee
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when you threatened not to participate in the committee
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when you continually threatened to walk away from the
committee
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when you can identify a single solitary person that you would issue
a subpoena
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when you're prepared to have been asked and answered website
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before you got the 15,000 pages of documents that you just
provide
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what you expect members of congress who are having conversations
with people on
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airplanes to stop the conversation and say let me go get a
democrat
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you heard the word glacial
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we're gonna pick up the pace we're gonna pick up the pace I have no
interest in
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died so you're going to have to pick up the pace with its
okay
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absolutely and this is why we were here today
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we have made two witnesses available since
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the fall of last year we are prepared anytime
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proactively as UN Alex no appreciate that this trip and are you
familiar with
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the subpoena the dates back to 2013
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the oversight committee set with respect to the A or B yes
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okay AARP is a statutory
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creation you agree congress created a or b yes do you agree
congress commander
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alter or enhance Darb
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Congress to change it right you agree congress should provide
oversight over
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what about statutory creations
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yes how can we do that if you wanna give us the documents related
to the RB
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how can we possibly do that this trip serve first up to
40,000
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pages of documents that the committee has received many of
those
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are in fact related to the AARP mister rubin I appreciate
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I really do I really do I appreciate the the word many
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I appreciate the forty thousand I keep coming back to one word this
in the
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in and outward all cert
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do we have all book up the document but we
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what we have communicated to you and and your stuff from what we
doing
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grateful for is the committee's explanation of his top
priorities
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and we would very be very honored it to continue to have this
discussion
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if the air be as as you noted here becomes a top priority
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that is certainly room and we should have our pick up on priority
ship 70,000
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I mean what what we're not gonna do is identify want ron shipp the
emails
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and that too much later go a poser do a witness interview with that
witness and
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the two months later get another charger the males
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when our colleagues on the other side by the way had no interest in
forming this
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committee whatsoever better now
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ironically complaining about the pace to the committee that they
had no interest
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in forming whatsoever
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is shop for us to pick up the pace said and i'm looking to
you
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to help me do that and and that's why we're here and that's what
we've
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engage proactively with you and your committee and we're happy to
continue to
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okay and I would mention 70,000 employees are
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engaged in their jobs I appreciate that I don't want ambassador
security guards
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eat body taken all of an important
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compliance with congressional increase is important and if you have
time for
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condom demonstrations or culinary diplomacy
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I think you have time to comply with a legitimate request for
documents
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from congress and I'm sure you