Jack Smith

Because that's not who he is.

But they need to discredit him because even with the case closed—

He still comes off very credible.

Well, you know, for me, whenever I'm watching congressional hearings, I mourn for the day when they actually used to work.

So one thing that was on display was the decline and fall of the congressional hearing.

We used to have hearings like this in which both sides were actually trying to find the truth.

The Watergate hearings were the example of this.

There was a certain slight amount of Republican defensiveness for Richard Nixon through the beginning of the Watergate hearings.

But as the evidence mounted, members responded to the evidence.

And what you saw today was this utterly nonsensical display that there's no amount of evidence that could ever be proof to any Republican on that committee of anything.

And this is where...

Donald Trump is not to blame for Donald Trump.

There could be no Donald Trump without those people.

Those are the people, the Republicans in Congress, they are the people who gave this country Donald Trump.

They are the people who decided we're not just going to tolerate him.

We are going to try to become him.

And so what you saw today were Donald Trump's best students, students in Trumpian lying.

They just think they can go into a committee hearing and lie and lie and lie.

And during our lifetimes, that was absolutely impossible.

If you got caught in a hearing in the center of the House saying something that could be proved to be untrue during the hearing, which was hard before the Internet—