Representative Pete Sessions, a Republican from Texas, did a nice thing in December, stopping by an AP government class in his district to take questions from students. Now video of the Q&A has been posted online, and Sessions is getting flak for being a little too honest with the youth of America. When a student asked Sessions, “Do you think that the government has withheld important information regarding 9/11 because it does not agree with the official narrative given in 2001?” he decided the best way to get out of the sticky situation was to mention that we don’t really know who killed JFK. “Do you think that Oswald was the only person to shoot Jack Kennedy our president? I don’t know. You know, if they go down there and recreate it, it’s really hard for a guy with that rifle to pop-pop-pop,” Sessions said, making gun motions with his hands. “When my dad was the FBI director the number one question was ‘Who really killed Kennedy?’ I don’t know. I don’t know.”

Eventually, Sessions circled around to an uncontroversial point about 9/11, saying that America was attacked by a bunch of “thugs,” and “we were innocent people who never thought this would happen.”

A Sessions spokesman offered BuzzFeed this statement, which clarifies that while the congressman does not necessarily accept the findings of the Warren Commission, he feels he knows “precisely” what happened on 9/11: