Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., on Sunday defended the Senate Intelligence Committee’s denial of access to certain documents by fellow GOP Senators eager to probe the transition of the Obama administration to the Trump administration.
In an interview on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” Rubio said the material being sought by GOP Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Charles Grassley of Iowa were "transcripts of interviews.”
Rubio explained “when that deal was put together” about allowing reviews, Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and John Warner, D-Va., “told the witnesses that ‘we won't turn over your testimony to our committee unless you agree to that,’ so that's the problem, that's the crux there.”
“The second thing about the Intelligence Committee is unlike these other committees where a chairman can do whatever they want, both the vice chairman and the chairman have to agree. The third is they have, if they want to interview these people, they most certainly have the right to issue subpoenas that interview whoever they want.”
Rubio added that “the 2016 election report makes it very clear that the FBI behaved very poorly with the things they did in the 2016 and aftermath of that election were terrible.”
“Clearly there was perjury and lying to a court but the question goes deeper and that is was it knowingly or part of a broader effort a coordinated effort where a bunch of people in law enforcement sworn to uphold the law and colluded, and we'll let the facts speak for themselves and find out soon enough I imagine,” he said.
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