Matt Gaetz: “Their [FBI's] answer was we paid $5 million just to test…”

“And then we found that the FBI had paid $5 million for this to Pegasus. So we bring Christopher Wray in and some of these guys and say, why is the FBI doing this? And Their [FBI's] answer was we paid $5 million just to test what its capabilities were. in the event that we had to defend against it. In the event that we had to defend against it, which I thought was totally bogus, but we won't use it at the time.” (10:41–29:15)

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