do you share the concerns that senator paul had? would you have joined the filibuster? have to give a lot of credit to rand paul. he disclosed his secret hold. i put a hold on a three-star general, i wasn t hiding. i think this crazy secret hold stuff is insane reporter: basically, a senator can put a hold on a nominee and don t have to explain that they have done tbut we know that the nominee doesn t move. if you are putting a hold on someone, you should step up to the plate and own it. i did that on an issue. i am not afraid. i think what he did for 13 hours is a credit to what the filibuster process is about. put your name on the table, tell people exactly why you are putting a hold on it and fight the good fight. that s what he d. i think several of us, you saw, a letter, a group of us, a bipartisan, odd collection of us, concerned about the information available. i think rand paul was trying to put that out there. where is the information?
that i had to the justice department. i even gave them all my computers in my office as well as personal computers. they looked at all of that. i instructed my aides to cooperate fully. and so the justice department had everything and you would think in a year they d be able to look at everything that i had. i wasn t hiding under the speech and debate clause. they had everything. you would think in a year they d understand that there is nothing there. and i think that the thing i learned the most, wolf, is, you know, i just, i m not mad because they thought i was corrupt. i m mad because they thought i was stupid. i knew they were after me and i had lawyers all the day long telling me what i could and could not do to make sure that none of this could happen or that i was living within and working within the rules of the house and within the law and