d antuono, something he might have known if he had shown up at the deposition like i did. all other opening statements will be included in the record and the honorable christopher wray has been director of the fbi since 2017, and he formerly served as the department of justice and the associate deputy attorney general and as assistant u.s. attorney for the northern district of georgia. director wray has also worked in private practice at king spalding llp. we welcome our witness and thank him for appearing today. we will begin by swearing you in, director. would you please rise and raise your right hand. you ve done this before. do you swear or affirm under penalty and perjury that the testimony is correct and crew to the best of your knowledge so help you god? the witness answered in the affirmative. please know that your written testimony will be entered into the record accordingly and we ask that you summarize your testimony if five minutes and we ll give you a few extra
vigorously and although you can t comment on it, the article does suggest that fbi agents want to just close the case because the ex-president made an assertion that a search had been made. now we had mr. d antuono in as a witness, and he testified four times that the mar-a-lago search had adequate probable cause. do you agree with that statement? that the search had probable cause? correct. yes. so you don t have any dispute that there was probable cause for this warrant. you know, i just want to say before going to my next question that over and over again the fbi delayed and showed unprecedented caution before investigating the ex-president even when there was a potential threat to national security, that s my view.
summary of mr. d antuono s words are a vast mischaracterization of what he actually said. here s just one example. chairman jordan has claimed that mr. d antuono said he had, quote, no idea, end quote, where the mar-a-lago investigation was run out of the fbi s washington field office instead of the miami field office. what the chairman hides is seconds later mr. dan antuono explains, the venue is here, washington, d.c., that it is not out of the ordinary for washington to be the lead in running the investigation and that it has the most experience and knowledge in, w working pub, corruption cases and the experts in investigations mr. jordan did not share the full record to the american public because it does not fit his chosen narrative. my staff has a redacted full testimony release, and i urge
documents. the government tried for over a year quietly to get them back and he jerked them around. when he faced a subpoena he didn t raise legal arguments and he engaged in deceitful conduct. that was a clear crime if those allegations are true, closed quote. the former president could have at any time for months simply returned the documents and avoided prosecution. the house republicans did not want to talk about any of that. they seem incapable of assigning any agency or responsibility to donald trump for problems that are trump s and trump s alone. i am here today about a man named stephen d antuono, a former agent in charge of the formal documents. last month the committee republicans brought him in for an interview and shortly after that, chairman jordan released a letter purporting to describe mr. d antuono s testimony. in fact, chairman jordan s