Sen. Richard Blumenthal, in an interview, responds to Justice Department letters over his inquiry into donors to the Trump administration. He says he wants to know how donors were solicited and what they may have been promised, from lighter regulation to merger agreements to contracts. He says 14 of the corporations got expanded or new contracts.
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- Who
- Sen. Richard Blumenthal
- Where
- interview - CNN
- Original footage
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- Length
- 56 seconds, unedited within the cut
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There's no way I'm going to be intimidated or back down from a lawful, necessary, appropriate investigation. This inquiry is important to disclose what the donors and the Trump administration wanted to conceal, which is not only who contributed their identities, but also how they were solicited, what they may have been promised implicitly, whether it is lightened regulation or better merger agreements, or contracts expanded or new contracts, 14 of these corporations had expanded or new contracts, I want to know how it all went down. And this investigation is not only lawful, but it is obligatory for us as an independent branch of government under the Constitution. There's just no way that the Department of Justice should be threatening or trying to intimidate us.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.