Rep. Ratcliffe pressing on why fact witnesses did not use the word “bribery” in their testimony.
Typically fact witnesses describe what they saw and facts, not adding their own legal conclusions.
Typically fact witnesses describe what they saw and facts, not adding their own legal conclusions.
So witnesses typically say if they saw someone hit a person, or saw a car crash - not that they observed “second degree battery,” or “vehicular manslaughter.”
And people flagging as the Congressman spoke, he was displaying a poster of a segment from The Beat reporting on bribery: 
