And so there are no secrets. So you couldn't brief us before. There's no question about that. And anybody who said we should have been briefed before as a whole is ridiculous. So We definitely were briefed about it then. And then after we met with Secretary, my committee, Energy and Commerce Committee, we met with secretary right afterwards and he was telling us how he had been down there and we said, well, we didn't know that. (23:57–24:00)
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Asserts that Congress was briefed about the situation in Venezuela after the fact.
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