Josh Hawley: “You used eight separate federal employees on federal time.”

“You actually wrote to people and said, do you think maybe I'd qualify? And you got cash for all of this. And it wasn't just one or two employees, was it? In fact, You used eight separate federal employees on federal time. You using federal resources to solicit cash awards, isn't that true? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully declined to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the Constitution.” (03:58–04:04)

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