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Voices]rnible senator blunt we had a good briefing that i think did address both the issues of an imminent threat, and opportunity to take out a mastermind of terror that was the top terrorist operative for the numberone state sponsor of terror, iran. I am on the intel committee, but every member of the senate has had access since i think, late may, to a book of activities specifically related to this , and the rising tempo and intensity of what soleimani was willing to do, was doing, and the number of attacks all over the world, his relationship with the houthi, his relationship lah, his relationship with syria, it is unusual that we would have that kind to focus and have the senate take time to look at the focus on one individual. It was a good briefing. Reporter you mentioned activity by soleimani for months and years passed. Were you convinced there was an imminent threat that required action last week . Sense inlunt we got a todays briefing that they were confident that his activi ....
Sen. Blunt are you ready . We had a good briefing that i think did address both the issues of immanence of threat, and the opportunity to take out a mastermind of terror that was the top terrorist operative for the numberone state sponsor of terror, iran. Every member of the senate i am on the Intel Committee but every member of the senate has had access since i think, late may, to a book of activities specifically related to this person, and the rising tempo and intensity of what soleimani was willing to do, was doing, and the number of attacks all over the world, his relationship with the houthi, his relationship with hezbollah, his relationship with syria, pretty unusual that we would have that kind to focus and encourage every member of the senate to take time to look at the focus on one individual. It was a good briefing. Reporter you mentioned activity from soleimani for months and years passed. Were you convinced there was ....
Litigation instead its been the long practice of the house to compile core evidence necessary to reach a reason decision about whether to impeach and then to bring the case here to the senate for a full trial that is exactly what we did here with an understanding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony it would be one thing if the house had show no interest in documents or wit this is during its investigation although human their of the houses the soul right to determine his proceedings as long as it makes the full case to the house as it did but is quite another when the president is the cause of his own complaint when the present with holds witnesses in documents and then attempts to rely on his own noncompliance to justify further concealment President Trump made it Crystal Clear we would never see a single document or a single witness when he d ....
Reach a reasoned decision about whether to impeach and then to bring full trial. That is exactly what we did hear therstding that the senate has its own power to compel documents and testimony. It would be one thing if the house had shown no interest in documents or witnesses during its investigation although even there the house is the sole right to determine its proceedings as long as it makes the full case to the house as it did. But its quite another when the president is the cause of his own complaint, when the president withholds witnesses and documents and then attempts to rely on his own noncompliance to justify further concealment. President trump made it Crystal Clear we would never see a concealment. President trump made itt crysta cl w never see a single document or single witness when he declared, as we just watched, that he would fight all subpoenas. As a matter of history and precedent it would be wrong to assert tha ....