problems that these committees have had in even the judiciary committee which in the senate side is working well for a while. he is not for feinstein basically acknowledged there are problems with senator grassley. they are going their separate ways. mike warner trying to work with rippard burr but problems on getting subpoenas. but most profound from the very beginning because your chair, devin nunes was working with the white house and had to recuse himself. we ve he seen our energy focussed in the wrong areas he. he has been subpoenaing fbi and gps but we haven t seen the relevant witnesses under subpoena. jared kushner he wasn t under subpoena. then after about 2 1/2 hours on his own decided not to continue the interview. samantha was in the chair about 1 1/2 hours longer than kushner because she he was brought in by the majority. what do we do to make sure this doesn t happen again? and this isn t the direction
that was the reason stone was there. the reason he was of interest to investigators is because he appeared to have inside knowledge of what julian assange was going to dump onto the internet based on hacks by russian intelligence. how did he get that information? that is the one question that stone didn t answer. so, you know, it kind of raises questions about the whole point of his testimony. now, this was a voluntary interview. he wasn t under subpoena, so he can t be compelled to answer the question. now the committee will have to come back and subpoena him if republicans will go along. but can i just add one thing? stone was correct on one point. he did, in his prepared statement why wasn t this behind he said why wasn t this out in the open? why was it behind closed doors? here we are nine months into the
interview. he wasn t under subpoena, so he can t be compelled to answer the question. now the committee will have to come back and subpoena him if republicans will dwgo along. but can i just add one thing? stone was correct on one point. he did iin his premared statement why wasn t this behind closed doors? here we are nine months into the investigation, and there hasn t been a single public hearing with a fact witness, with somebody who actually has direct knowledge of what took place during the presidential election. and you go back through history, watergate, iran contra, white water, campaign finance, all those hearings in congress were in public. the public could see. and yet these hearings, the fact witnesses have all so far been behind closed doors.