00:00This hearing will highlight the committee's investigation. The ranking
00:07member has repeatedly pushed to have this hearing much earlier and he'll
00:15probably mention that today, but if we had followed that misguided and dangerous
00:24demand, we wouldn't have had most of the necessary records needed to show how Jack
00:32Smith's corrupt operation undermined the rule of law and threatened our very
00:38political institutions. Of course, that was the strategy of the Democrats. Call a
00:46premature hearing, so all we had was Mr. Smith's account. That would bury the
00:55story. I am prepared to answer your questions truthfully. I stand by my
01:02testimony before the House of Representatives and I will not be
01:07silenced by continued threats of prosecution from the President or
01:13others.
01:21I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including my decision to bring
01:26charges against President Trump. I made those decisions without regard to
01:32President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the
01:382024 presidential election. Do you believe in the tooth fairy?
01:46I do not. How about the Easter Bunny? I no longer believe in the Easter Bunny. Do you
01:54think Jimmy Hoffa died of natural causes? I do not. Okay. Now, you sought the phone records
02:04records of a bunch of US senators, right? We sought the toll records, non-content
02:14records. Any Democrats or just Republicans? If President Trump had reached out to
02:22Democrats to further his... Yeah, but I'm just trying to get the facts. Were there any Democrats who sought their
02:26phone records? Just Republicans, right?
02:28The toll... The toll records that we sought were relevant to the investigation and they were Republicans... I'm asking you.
02:36You stalked me again, Counselor. You know that. You sought just the records of the Republicans. And you knew that
02:45violated the speech and debate cause, didn't you? That is incorrect.
02:59What would you say if I had a series of text messages from your team that said you were in
03:04Atlanta at a Warrior Hawks game on February 3rd, 2024, the day after Willis and Wade announced their affair?
03:17I don't think you know that we have this stuff. So, I'll give you a second to process it so
03:21you don't, you know, perjure yourself.
03:24You just took it down really quick. If I could look at that again.
03:30You may think you're a hero in this story, but let me tell you something. You're the villain. You've done
03:36so much damage. As a former prosecutor, I can say there's so much damage to the trust and
03:40faith people have in our system. You have weaponized the Department of Justice against political enemies to an extent that
03:46has never happened in the history of this country. You will go down as a total dirtbag.
03:52I yield my time.
03:56Well, I'm glad you're trying to rehabilitate the witness, but it's not your time.
04:00When you are calling a witness a dirtbag and showing him these things...
04:01I presented him with text messages about him wanting to meet with people that could have obviously been related to
04:09the prosecution.
04:10That was coordinated with his office in Atlanta.
04:12Well, I'm going to begin my questions now, but I think that people should have their back straight before they
04:17accuse someone of being a dirtbag and not get the teams wrong.
04:21I stand by that statement.
04:23Teams. You had the teams wrong, sir.
04:29This is gaslighting the American people. It has been going on for eight years.
04:3530 days before an election, when people are demanding their gas prices go down.
04:40We've got a whole lot of hot wind energy and gaslighting continuing to perpetuate the big lie in America that
04:50Donald Trump was somehow cheated out of the 2020 election.
04:55Any time the law stood in your way, any time the Constitution stood in your way, you just ignored it.
05:04Is that why you lied to the House under oath about getting member text messages?
05:09I answered every question I was asked truthfully.
05:13Oh, I don't think so.
05:14I am proud of our investigation.
05:15No, well, you shouldn't be. You should be totally ashamed.
05:17Let me just ask you this.
05:20My and Senator Johnson's investigation will continue, but today's hearing is adjourned.
