I am determined to put on record the steps taken by you and your staff to obtain a replacement indictment against my client, Tom DeLay.
I think everybody has cooperated with the government, and the evidence showed Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.
We've been right all along that Ronnie Earle charged a crime that didn't exist and there's 30 years of precedent that backs that up. We want to get to trial and hope once we do, a jury will find Tom Delay didn't do anything illegal.
There's no crime that's been committed. I am confident that, when we get to trial, we'll show that Tom DeLay did nothing wrong.
If you read the indictment, you can't tell what Tom DeLay is charged with doing.
Before the first indictment you tried to coerce a guilty plea from Tom DeLay for a misdemeanor, stating the alternative was indictment for a felony which would require his stepping down as Majority Leader of the House of Representatives.