John Ratcliffe: “The Hatch act would prevent me in a political role from…”

“Regardless of what that. That. I don't know that document is. But regardless of what it says, it didn't happen. Oh, no. This is new. But what I'm telling you is that The Hatch act would prevent me in a political role from engaging in that. I'm not aware that anything like that happened. This says unfiltered updates. So, Director Gabbard, do you have any comment on whether unfiltered updates of private national security briefings should be made to individuals that donate to the President?” (03:35–03:41)

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