‘What Do You Have To Hide?’: Clay Higgins Lays Into Dems Over Withholding Biden-Hur Tapes

4 months ago

During House floor remarks prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) demanded Attorney General Merrick Garland be held in inherent contempt.

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00:00and is recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, and to my colleagues across the aisle, this is about

00:05the quality of the evidence. Surely everyone recognizes that the Oversight Committee is a

00:12body of authority of Congress that has a responsibility to hold the executive branch

00:19accountable. So in the process of our committee work on the Oversight Committee, we seek

00:29intelligence and data from the executive committee all the time. Sometimes it's voluntary,

00:35sometimes it requires a subpoena. In this case, we had to use subpoena authority, which we did.

00:40That's a process that we went through. They provided us a description of the evidence.

00:46A transcript is not an audio file, it's a description of an audio file.

00:52If you have a crime committed in evidence, you're not going to look at a picture of a knife or a

00:57description of a bloody shoe or a glove. You need the knife or the shoe or the glove.

01:03We can provide our own description. We don't know if the transcript is accurate or not

01:08because we don't have the audio file. There's zero value to a transcript in a process like this

01:17without the original quality evidence. And my attorney friends over there know this.

01:23So as an investigator, I say it's quite simple.

01:26Give us the original evidence. What do you have to hide?

01:30Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield.

01:32Gentleman yields. Gentleman from Massachusetts.

01:34I reserve, Mr. Speaker.

01:35Gentleman reserves. Gentleman from Florida.

01:36I reserve.

01:38Gentleman reserves. Gentleman from Massachusetts.

01:43Are we having more speakers?

01:45How many speakers does he have, Speaker?

01:47We don't. I don't see anybody here.

01:51But we may. They may come down.

01:53Gentleman from Florida.

01:54Speaker, how many minutes?

‘What Do You Have To Hide?’: Clay Higgins Lays Into Dems Over Withholding Biden-Hur Tapes

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