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thing, everyone should speak up about it. Mr. Cummings.

Finally, let me ask you this.

What is the

harm and the concern to national security when the President makes these kinds of statements, like the tweets that I just read you? Mr. Comey.

There's a risk that people -- not just a risk.

Millions of people believe what the President says.

Today, there

are millions of Americans walking around thinking that the FBI is corrupt and out to get the President of the United States, that the Justice Department is corrupt and out to get the President of the United States. and over again.

And they believe it because he's said it over

A lot of people probably within walking distance

of me right now have repeated those lies. And that is a situation that puts us at risk in the short term, that the FBI and the Justice Department will not be trusted or believed.

At a doorway trying to recruit a source, in a

courtroom where they say, "I found this in the left dresser drawer of this gang member," and they won't be believed because the President of the United States has convinced millions of people that they're corrupt, when that's a lie.

But millions of people

believing a lie is dangerous for us -- again, in the short term. Mr. Cummings. Mr. Comey.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We're going to be okay in the long run.

my concern about our safety.

That's

And that's what worries the FBI

agents, that they won't be trusted and believed anymore because good Americans are getting lied to so much.

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