Thank the gentleman for yielding. And thank you, Mr. Speaker. When I was majority leader in 2008, Mr. Blunt, who was then in the leadership of the Republican Party, Senator Kit Bond and Senator Jay Rockefeller, who co-chaired the Intel Committee in the United States Senate, and I worked together in a very difficult context. And that context was the Bush administration had asked for information from the telecoms. Telecoms had given them information, and there were really no firewalls as to what that information was. (00:03–00:23)
CLAIM
Asserts collaboration with key Republican and Democratic leaders on intelligence legislation in 2008.
This is an excerpt from a raw transcript. The assertions have not been audited or verified. Tap the video to view the source footage and understand the context.
