mr. reeves: good question. i'm not familiar with the brief you refer to, but i included my -- included in my book, a memorandum by one of the prosecutors in the jefferson davis case named richard dana who wrote out why he felt that it was smart to drop the case in 1868, and he makes many of those points. it is such a beautifully written document that i put it in the appendix because it is an impressive legal argument. he is basically saying we already got what we want. we won the war as a result of -- i don't want to get too in the weeds, but that was a judicial ruling during the war where the government's position that this was both a war and a rebellion was upheld, which meant the government could pursue traitors and bring charges against them. dana was, by the way, the lawyer on the case. he said we've got what we want. we won the war, defined secession as treason, and to go forward and put this all in the hands of one guy in a virginia jury who could therefore nullify everything by coming back with a not gu

mr. reeves, we talked about this, under secretary reefs, if you can talk about your proposal tothis point to begin address the sorry state of etc.r of the headstones, mr. bill richt is not with us the cosponsor of that bill, and i'd like you to address all three of those, if can. >> absolutely. first of all, i'll address the weight times first if that's okay. thing i want to tell you, i called the call center myself this morning before i at what would normally be a peak time. i went into a call queue, and talking to a representative in less than five minutes. okay? i asked questions because i want to know what's going on in the field. i went to the call center. return to the call center later this month. we provided copies of our plan that we're working on. transparent.fully we provided it to our partners willour staffs, and provide it to anybody that would like to see what we're doing to issues that we've got there. first of all, one of the problems that we had that was showing, you know, peak -- you than peak call times, had to do with our phone system. with our i.t. folks, getting good

mr reeves is in close contact you know still no rove and recently they had a meeting in vienna and they were very corporate. and all sure the european countries are trying to remain. the we've worked. the you should compensate worked. we have loss after the meter all. of the united states illegally from disagreement i'm sure you're follow the latest results of the nato summit in brussels and it's shocked many russians i have to tell you by the way mr trump trade if he's american partners do you think this if he continues on that path relating to the europeans in that way do you think it would be easier for iran to get what if iran wants from the europeans because you said before in previous interviews that there is no unity here on the iranian question but in europe. you know all cooperation in europe in in that train or he's quite. understand their role is continue but what they're doing in nato has not. come but you know what you wish to have in the european countries of course use they want to destroy the world everything and every subject in nato itself with them but you're going to

reeves represented ben rhodes in the benghazi representation. she represented the clinton foundation against freedom of information act. andr andrew wiseman attended the election party. and then there's you and mrs. page. it's interesting to me that when -- you were so damaging to the investigation that you had to go that bob mueller, the person that brought in all of these people that had connections to the hillary clinton campaign did not ask you about a single text message. i tend to believe mr. chairman, it's because he didn't want to know the answer and there was bias and your perception of bob mueller's perception of you is totally unreliable. i yield back. >> time has expired. the chair recognizes mr. demings for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. strzok, let me just clear this up right now. i'm not angry. i'm not desperate. i'm not afraid of the truth. i am in pursuit of it. first of all, i want to thank you for your service to our country through the federal bureau of investigation and for your service to our country through the united states army. mr. chairman, each of us as members of congress took an oath to uphold and defend the constitution of the united states. my oath