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On the recordOctober 12, 2021
We're not willing to allow them to play rope-a-dope in the civil courts that way. That's why we're going to go straight to criminal contempt and expect the Justice Department unlike the last one to uphold the principle that no one is above the law, one no one gets to say, I'm not going to comply with a subpoena because I don't want to and there's nothing you could do about it.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Adam Schiff discusses the committee's approach to non-compliance with subpoenas.

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