fifth because he believes that his testimony may implicate him in crime. that s an extraordinary someone at the senior most levels of the justice department they feel the need to plead the fifth and might have been involved in criminal activity but he s made a series of other spurious claims appearing before as a basis for refusing to answer and mind you when he did appear before he made no suggestion that the answers might incriminate him and we ll try to determine if he s operating in good, bad failt faith or a mixture of the above. can you share the health issue he is citing? the short answer is i don t know. and if i did i probably wouldn t be in a position to share that either out of respect for his health condition. but i am told by the committee