Jack Smith

We did not provide that information to the judge when we requested a nondisclosure order consistent with the law and consistent with the department.

Well, the D.C.

Court of Appeals, in passing on that order, found that it was justified.

If I have any regret, it would be not expressing enough appreciation for my staff who works so hard in these investigations.

As I testify before the committee today, I want to be clear.

I stand by my decisions as special counsel, including the decision to bring charges against President Trump.

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in criminal activity.

If asked whether to prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that president was a Democrat or a Republican.

No one, no one should be above the law in this country and the law required that he be held to account.

So that is what I did.

To have done otherwise on the facts of these cases would have been to shirk my duties as a prosecutor and as a public servant.

of which I had no intention of doing.

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Would you please rise and raise your right hand?

Jack Smith testifies to Congress.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss my work as special counsel.