Adam Schiff actually said...

"Moreover, if Kevin McCarthy is speaker, then, functionally, Donald Trump is speaker, because McCarthy will not stand up to him, no matter how unethical the demand."

"It's very hard to see how we can get timely information to protect the country if we can't enforce our own subpoenas. So I do view this as an early test of whether our democracy is recovering, a test ..."

"if Kevin McCarthy had been speaker during the last presidential election, they would have decertified the results."

"as long as the GOP and its leadership are a cult, an autocratic cult around the former president, there’s no accommodating that."