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Ron Johnson: “My staff found the famous emails with David Rans talking…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Senator Ron Johnson on the DarkHorse Podcast

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:22

I think what Trump really needs is appoint a secretary of information extraction. My guess is the shredders, the disk drive erasers, are working overdrive. But in today's world, it's hard to erase records. I mean, My staff found the famous emails with David Rans talking about, you know, I've got this gal who knows how to avoid FOIA requests. you know, not from the federal health agencies. One of the people on that email chain that did provide us the records. (1:06:22–1:06:30)

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Asserts that his staff found emails discussing how to avoid Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.

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