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Work their way down. and you'll see today especially republican members on the other side try to frustrate that and throw people off their rhythm. i can promise you the members have done their homework, even if the witness in front of them haven't. they know his previous statements on this. they'll know the department of justice regulations. and a lot of times they'll have prepared answers or statements. you saw that from nadler today. once he got the gist of the cd that whitaker was not going to answer questions invoking the squishy executive privilege, not coming out and claiming privilege b...

Let me say this. your iteration of the department's long-standing policy appears designed to delay answering these questions as long as possible. i find that unacceptable. i understand the role of executive privilege and respect the value in our system of governance. however, congress is a co-equal branch of government. we have a responsibility to conduct oversight. this is a responsibility we take very seriously. i've repeatedly tried to work with your office first in delaying the hearing until february and then in providing you our questions in advance. i did this because the executive branc...

The department's failure to do its due diligence here to me is deeply troubling. i do not believe that issuing subpoena here would correct the problem, but i'm going to give you the opportunity to rectify the situation. after today's hearing we will attempt to reach an accommodation to get answers to the questions. as part of that process i ask for your commitment to return for a deposition in the coming weeks under oath with an understanding that the transcript will be released to the public as soon as practical thereafter. any questions that are unanswered today or require consultation with ...

As a society we want protected. it's not going to get adjudic e adjudicated in the hearing room. it's not going to be resolved today. t going to the congress won't get the answers it wants from whitaker. whitaker will fall back on executive privilege claims. a court will have to resolve it. that will take a long time. this is not the first time it happened. it happens with democrats in the white house and republicans in congress. it happens with republicans in the white house and democrats in congress. this is sort of an age-old standoff. >> but the president is supposed to choose. he's suppos...

Pleases. he's there to answer the questions to the extent he can without it violating a legitimate privilege or an ongoing investigation. and to -- it's sort of impertinent to ask the questioner to lay out the factual basis for the questions. but let me just say, chris, my expectations were low going into this, that we were going to get much of substance out of acting attorney general whitaker. now my expectations have shifted and i only hope he doesn't continue to say things that would be demeaning or demoralizing of the more than 100,000 outstanding employees of the department of justice. he...