Iglesias said he was not aware of any complaints about his office attendance before his firing -- "Then all of a sudden I find out there were problems that were never addressed with me, " he told CNN.

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And I've already addressed that, because he said, "I was defining the term as the judge told me to define it and as I understood it, " which I think is a reasonable explanation.

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He has wisely picked a part of this set of interwoven challenges that should have been addressed much more forcefully by me and others long ago.

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