Rep. Mike Pompeo On Hugh Hewitt

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Hugh Hewitt Show:

Sept. 9 2015

 

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HH: Are you prepared to immunize him?

 

MP: I haven’t heard any discussion of that from the Benghazi Committee, none at all.

 

HH: Is that worth having discussion about? If you immunize him, I don’t care if he walks free if we find out what he did for the server.

 

MP: It is certainly something that’s worth thinking about. I know the Senate side has been talking about it. We need to find out what happened, and I know that Chairman Gowdy will use every tool in his arsenal. We have four Americans who were killed now almost exactly three years ago today. We need to get those answers. So if he can share them with us, I’d be happy to provide him with the means so that he can tell us the story.

 

HH: Now Congressman, Mrs. Clinton has made, former Secretary of State Clinton has made a number of statements about her server. I’ve been on Don Lemon, with Chris Cuomo, with many others, making the statement. I just want to know if you agree with me as Harvard Law grad, a member of the Intelligence Committee and the Benghazi Committee that you are.

 

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MP: I would add only this. The marking does make a difference, that is, if it’s marked, one knows what’s in it, right? But if a document is not marked, it is the contents of the information that matter, and not the fact that the document is not marked.

 

HH: I actually used you as my example. If Congressman Pompeo went to a SCIF, read something that was classified, walked out and sent Hugh Hewitt and email summarizing what was in that document that was classified and in the SCIF, Congressman Pompeo and Hugh Hewitt, if I knew it was classified, would be in violation of 18 USC 1924, correct?

 

MP: That’s correct. We would both be felons

 

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HH: Yup. There you go. Now to the Iran deal. I just asked Senator Tom Cotton who punted to you, who has standing to bring a lawsuit determining that the President has violated Corker-Cardin by concealing key parts of the deal.

 

MP: I believe there will be two groups of people who will have standing to do that, Hugh, and I think it’s important that we all acknowledge that no American has read this agreement. It sometimes escapes people, they can’t find it in their imagination that we could talk about a deal so much, and yet there’s not a single American who has read this agreement in its entirety. Two groups will have standing. I believe that there will be state attorney generals that ultimately have standing, who passed state-level sanctions, and I believe that the House of Representatives will have standing, too. I’m told that we, that the House of Representatives was actually successful today in receiving standing in the Burwell case, so…

 

HH: Oh, very good.

 

MP: I haven’t seen that opinion, I haven’t seen that opinion, but I’m told that there was a favorable ruling on standing just today for the House of the Representatives.

 

HH: Well, then, that would mean, wouldn’t it, that there is a level of urgency that the House move to dispatch the lawsuit, and probably using Paul Clement again, although I’m happy if you want to call me up, that we could bring, you guys could authorize the lawsuit to be brought today arguing that the President has violated Corker-Cardin, right?

 

MP: So I think the first step is to get the House on record as having made, the United States House of Representatives’ view that the President has not complied with it, and then I think we have to wait for the President to behave in a manner that is inconstant with the fact that he’s not complied. That is, if he waives the sanctions after the House has determined that he’s not complied, I think it’s then that the House of Representatives could act, and I’m hopeful that we will.

 

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