At a Senate committee hearing, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse responds to the Attorney General, who he says told the committee that he and the ranking member received political contributions from an "Epstein close confidant." Whitehouse says Federal Election Commission records show he got no contributions from that person, and that "an intern at the Department of Justice could have checked." He calls it a yes-or-no question with "an unimpeachable record" behind the answer.
The receipt
- Who
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse
- Where
- hearing - Senate committee (the committee before which the Attorney General test
- Original footage
- Senator Sheldon Whitehouse · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 56 seconds, unedited within the cut
Read the transcript
She made allegations about the ranking member and me having received political contributions from some, she said, Epstein close confidant. Well, guess what? That's actually checkable. There's a thing called the Federal Election Commission. The Federal Election Commission keeps a website that tracks all of our contributions. An intern at the Department of Justice could have checked to see that the allegation, I'll leave it to myself, that I had received campaign contributions from this individual, that that was false. And it's not a maybe answer. It's a yes or no. Did I or didn't I? And there's an unimpeachable record that shows that what she said sitting right there was not true.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.