minute got cold feet. i yield back the gentleman from ohio you ran president trump s campaign between january 2015 and june 2016. yes you were at the helm of the campaign when president trump secured the republican nomination yes pretty good campaign you were in sfwl thank you you beat what, 17, 18 different opponents, senators, governors, good senators of course you had a good candidate. the best. i think he s done a great job as president of the united states after you left the campaign, in june of 2016, the head of the campaign, were you still involved with the campaign throughout the rest of the election up through november 8th? in that entire time, you were part of the campaign operation at some level or another from january 2015 to november 8th
had no more responsibility or authority to secure the integrity of the 2016 election cycle than i did that responsibility fell to the intelligence community and the obama biden administration, they failed never did they contact under my tenure, inform me or anyone of the campaign at the time of any potential hacking which may have been transpiring never did they contact us to alert us of any potential security violations as it related to the election so i think mr. comey, mr. brennan b and mr. clapper ultimately opened the responsibilities ahead of the intelligence community to understand why they did not do a better job of protect iing the american electorate in 2016 to ensure we didn t have foreign interference and had they contacted you, what would have been your response in terms of notifying others on the election in terms of their dealing with russians we would have worked with them i would have working through counsel to work with them, to notify them of any potential