Sen. James Risch on Comey’s Opening Statement: ‘This Is as Good as It Gets’

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RISCH: "Thank you Mr. Comey for your service. America needs more like you. We really appreciate it. Yesterday, I got and everybody got the seven pages of your direct testimony that's now a part of the record here. And the first I read it and ten I read it again, all I could think was, number one, how much I hated the class of legal writing when I was if law school. Are you the guy that probably got the a after it. So I find it clear. I find it concise. And having been a prosecutor for a number of years and handling hundreds, maybe thousands of cases and read police reports, investigative reports, this is as good as it gets and I really appreciate that, not only the conciseness and the clearness of it, but also the fact that you have things that were written down contemporaneous when they happened, you put them in quotes so we know exactly what happened, we're not getting some ren diction of it that's in your mind. So you are to be complimented."
COMEY: "Thank you. I had great parents and teachtaries beat that into me."
RISCH: "That's obvious. The chairman walked you through a number of things the American people need to know and want to know. Number one, obviously, we all know about the active measures that the Russian versus taken. I think a lo -- the Russians have taken. I think a lot of us were surprised, it didn't come as a surprise, now the American people know this."