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You, do you believe that more context is needed to be able to address the question? >> well, i don't think i've heard the question yet, but i'll let you know when i hear the question. >> let me ask you this. i'll repeat the question i asked before. you said you heard about this with the rest of us in december 2005. you said on the air that you had no knowledge of anything related to this until the "new york times" article. now we have a declassified inspector general report that on september 17th, which is befo before -- several months before the "new york times" article john uh issued a repor...

Directly related to this just like the three documents i shared that are already public, these other six contain no personal information, no presidential records, restrictive material. there is simply no reason they can be made public. i hope they will be this next round. it is difficult when to ask a question i have to ask the republicans, will you allow me to ask the question? i certainly never did that when i was chairman. now i had asked you in 2006 whether you seen any documents relating to president bush's warrantless wiretapping program or whether you heard anything about it. you acted,...

Signing statements play a role in that. let me read something you've written as it relates to why this is important to a discussion, different discussion on torture. mr. bush's aggressive use of presidential signing statements bad a contentious issue toward the end of judge kavanagh's tenure as staff secretary from 2003 to 2006. by then mr. bush had already challenged more provisions of new laws than all previous presidents combined, but those claims attracted little attention until he a effort issed he could bypass a december 2005 law in which congress over his objections had tightened restri...

Law. >> you can read those and in my second round we can go back and i'd be happy to. i think you'll see we didn't make this up. >> senator, i'm not suggesting you are. there was a tug of war among parties in the white house. >> i wanted to know which side you were on. >> count me in with john bellinger most the time with these things and that's my recollection and max waxman would be another one and that is my recollection sitting here and i'll study these. >> let me ask you a question on wiretapping in december 2005 there was a report that there was the intercept of communication of american...

>> sure. >> -- and then in my second round, we'll go back to it. >> sure. >> i'd be very happy to -- baize i think you'll see that we didn't make this up. >> senator, i'm not suggesting you are. and there was a -- there was a tug-of-war among parties in the white house. >> i'm sure of that. i wanted to know which side you were on. >> well, count me in with john belanger most of the time on these, okay? and that's my recollection and matt waxman would be another one. and so that's my recollection, senator, sitting here. i'll study these. >> okay. let me ask you a question on wiretapping. in dec...