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A tense Capitol Hill exchange erupted as Rep. Jim Jordan pressed Southern Poverty Law Center Interim CEO Bryan Fair over the organization's use of donor funds and field operations. Repeatedly demanding a direct answer, Jordan questioned whether SPLC resources were used to send personnel to extremist rallies across the United States. The hearing quickly turned heated as lawmakers debated transparency, accountability, and the role of advocacy organizations in monitoring extremist movements. Jordan also challenged SPLC's fundraising practices, asking whether its activities were driven by financial incentives. The clash underscored growing political divisions over extremism, free speech, and nonprofit oversight.




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00:00Mr. Fair, did the Southern Property Law Center use donor money to have field sources attend
00:05extremist rallies across the country?
00:10Mr. Chairman, it's a simple question.
00:13Did you use your donor money for that purpose?
00:16We used donor money to pay confidential informants to infiltrate extremist organizations.
00:25Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor dollars to have field sources host extremist
00:29rallies throughout the country?
00:32Not to my knowledge.
00:33That's not what the indictment says.
00:35Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor dollars to have field sources grow existing
00:38chapters of extremist groups?
00:40Mr. Chairman, as I said earlier—
00:43It's a simple question, Mr. Fair.
00:44Did you use donor money for the purpose I just read?
00:47I'm reading straight from the superseding indictment.
00:49And, Mr. Chairman, the indictment will be managed and responded to by counsel in the criminal
00:55case that's been made.
00:56Well, you just answered a question from Mr. Raskin concerning the indictment.
00:58And he asked you, did field sources send information to the FBI that help with things?
01:01You answered that question.
01:02That's a matter of public knowledge.
01:03That's in our public filing.
01:05Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor money to have field sources create new
01:10chapters of extremist groups?
01:12Again, Mr. Chairman.
01:14Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor money to recruit new individuals into those
01:19extremist groups?
01:21I assume you don't want me to answer since you're not giving me time to answer.
01:24No, I'm giving you time to answer because that's a yes.
01:26Did you use your donor's money for that purpose?
01:29Yes or no?
01:30Again, those issues will be resolved in the pending allegations against the SPLC.
01:37It seems to me if the answer is no, you could say no.
01:40We have asserted that the allegations are false.
01:43Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor money to have field sources make donations to
01:47extremist group leaders and purchase materials for cross burnings?
01:51It's alleged in the indictment.
01:53Did it happen?
01:53We've alleged that those allegations are false.
01:56Did the Southern Property Law Center use donor dollars to have field sources create racist
01:59paraphernalia that extremist groups sold at rallies?
02:05We've alleged that those allegations are false.
02:07Okay, how about this?
02:08What is Fox Photography?
02:15Mr. Chairman, what I've learned about Fox Photography, I've learned from counsel in
02:21conversations with counsel.
02:23How about Northwest Technologies?
02:25And they're covered by the attorney-client privilege.
02:27I'm not, I'm, these are, these are, well, did the Southern Poverty Law Center establish
02:32shell companies to pay, to run the money through, to then pay the field sources?
02:40Again, all of the allegations that you are referring to, Chairman Jordan, will be-
02:46Well, how about this?
02:47... responded to by our counsel in the Middle District of Alabama.
02:54Did you pay the field sources directly or did you pay them through an intermediary?
03:02Mr. Chairman Jordan?
03:04Yep.
03:05Our counsel will respond to all the allegations in the indictment in the case pending in the
03:11Middle District.
03:11Well, there's all these companies that you sent money to, Center Investigative Agency, not
03:16the CIA, but your CIA, Fox Photography, Northwest Technologies, Tech Writers Group, Rare Books
03:21Warehouses, Imagery Link, J&J Electronics, and Kelly's Marine.
03:26And I'm just wanting to know if that was the intermediate shell companies that you guys
03:29set up to pay the field sources.
03:31Is that true?
03:34Will the good chairman yield for just a moment?
03:36No, I got just a minute and a half and then I'll be happy to entertain a question you may
03:39have.
03:39Chairman Jordan, our counsel will respond to all the allegations in the Middle District
03:45of Alabama, as the process allows.
03:49Did you do it all for the money?
03:52I mean, you said now, I think the Southern Public Law Center said you're no longer going
03:55to use these field sources, you're going to stop the program, but you did it for multiple
03:58years and according to the indictment, it was $4 million that you shelled out to these
04:02various field sources to engage in all the activities I just read.
04:06Was it all about the money?
04:07As we said in our public statement, Chairman Jordan, we did it to protect our staff and to
04:12protect the public.
04:13Did fundraising increase after paying people to stay in these groups who actually wanted
04:18out of them?
04:19Did your fundraising increase?
04:21Did the donations coming in increase?
04:25Chairman Jordan, I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to when you say-
04:30How about this?
04:30After the crazy Charlottesville rally, did fundraising go up?
04:35Mr. Chairman, our fundraising went up.
04:39Fundraising where one of your field sources helped coordinate transportation-
04:42Our fundraising went up.
04:43Did it go up when President Donald Trump was elected in 2016?
04:47Fundraising go up after you paid a field source to coordinate the transportation at an event
04:51in Charlottesville where a person was killed.
04:53That's what I'm asking.
04:54Did it go up?
04:54Because according to what we know, you went from $51 million to $133 million in one year.
04:59And that happened when President Donald Trump was elected.
05:05Who's the president of the National Socialist Party?
05:10You know?
05:14You paid him $70,000.
05:15He was field source number 30.
05:17I just want to know who he is.
05:18Do you know who he is?
05:19Mr. Chairman, that's an allegation in the indictment that will be responded to by counsel
05:24in the Middle District of Alabama.
05:27My time has expired.
05:28The chair now recognizes the gentleman from New York.
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