discuss the aid package coming to puerto rico, that puerto rico s aid response should be come men sure rate with the american citizens. we re calling for waiving of the jones act. and we re calling for the forgiveness of puerto rico s debt at this point. they don t have the money. there s no way to pay that debt back, particularly in the wake of this hurricane. to ask for that is economic punishment for people already suffering. already, you know, the response has included several scandals in terms of the way the recovery effort was sort of, you know, directed. you already had the chief of puerto rico s power authority resign under fire back on october 29th. the white fish energy contract, the over bid, no bid contract to rebuild power lines was canceled. we discovered in november by a
and change and why talk of revenge? i being the context here is important. we are here in ohio this morn in ohio yesterday and the president reminding people in the state that mitt romney is closing the campaign that is all scare tactics and scaring autoworkers in the state . lage out false statements about them losing their jobs and he wanted to make sure if they don t like the policiless they don t like the plan he s presenting for the middle class go to voting booth and cast their battle and nothing more complicated than that. and i know the presidents meet with fema officials and folks are suffer negligent aftermath of hurricane sandy, pleading for faster aid response. the president is promising to cut the red tape. what is he doing about it right now? i have been with him the last two days and every time he gets off of the stage he s on the phone with local officials and first responders
testimonial that claim we re still not accepting. but what we ve done and the leadership of senator burr and senator warner is issued another request for documents from companies that he organized who are not individuals and those records should be available. do you expect to get those documents? we hope we do. are his lawyers saying those are subject to his fifth amendment privilege, as well? they very well might. i m not aware we ve receive aid response yet. our position would be and there is case law to support in that the fifth amendment right adheres to a person s self-incrimination, not to a company s and documents that the company has. you think you ll get those documents? i think they ll probably try to delay and perhaps make the same argument about the fifth amendment. paul manafort who was the trump campaign chairman turned over 300 pages of documents to the committee. have you seen those pages? do you know what you re looking for in those documents?