At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Whitehouse asks a witness why Judge Boasberg should be impeached. The witness answers that he has no opinion on Judge Boasberg. Whitehouse replies that he had one when he twice tweeted that Boasberg should be impeached. When the witness suggests those were retweets, Whitehouse answers: "No, they're your tweets. You're the one who's responsible for them."
The receipt
- Who
- Sen. Whitehouse
- Where
- hearing - Senate Judiciary Committee
- Original footage
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 41 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
So why should Judge Boesberg, the chief judge of the DC Circuit, be impeached? I don't have an opinion on Judge Boesberg. You had one when you twice said that he should be impeached on tweets. So Senator, I suspect that you're quoting retweets or comments to other tweets. It would be nice to have. No, they're your tweets. You're the one who's responsible for them. You're responsible for knowing what you said. Don't put it on us to have to explain to you your own tweets. This is your mess, not ours. You're the one who tweeted impeach him. If you can't explain that, that's on you.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.