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Reasons that have been outlined well by my colleague senator whitehouse. there is no valid claim here of executive privilege, even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted. the question is, what is the administration afraid of showing the american people? what is it trying to hide? >> mr. chairman, using your own words in the statement you just read, you said i quote, we've had more than enough time to review the documents. sir, we just got a document dump last night, over 40,000 pages. i would venture to say not one senator has had time to read through those 40,000 pages. we're co...

Colleague. there is no valid claim here of executive privilege. even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted. the question is what is the administration afraid of showing the american people? what is it trying to hide? >> mr. chairman using your own words in the statement you read i quote, we've had more than enough time to review the documents. sir, we just got a document dump last night of over 40,000 pages. not one senator here has had time to read through those 40,000 pages. so we're continuing to rush through this process, a process that deserves to be scrutinized. i support ...

Colleague, senator whitehouse. there is no valid claim here of executive privilege. even if there were one, it has not been properly asserted. the question is, what is the administration afraid of showing the american people? what is it trying to hide? >> mr. chairman, using your own words in the statement you just read, you said, i quote, we've had more than enough time to review the documents. sir, we just got a document dump last night over 40,000 pages. i would venture to say not one senator here has had time to read through those 40,000 pages. so we are continuing to rush through this pro...

About document production with the american people? >> i think by continuing to emphasize i had a democratic colleague say that she had been home and that a lot of people in her home state were talking about this. i was at the mccain service most of the weekend, so i have not been getting as much home state news, but i think the american public are getting that there's something fundamentally unfair about a last minute 42,000 page document dump, about selecting which 10% of the records you'll let the other side see. and certainly anybody that's ever litigated a case knows perfectly well you're...

Objections to him but now the fact that within a matter of five days 3,000 pages of documentation that his office was illegally withholding about communications between him and oil and gas companies, those are about to be released. how can the republicans possibly defend voting on him tomorrow when some time in the next five days we're getting a 3,000 page document dump on him on the subject he's now being elevated to the federal government to oversee. so the president today held a press conference in which he proclaimed he's just mystified anybody thinks anything's going i don't think. >> i t...