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Adam Schiff: “I have to think that unless he has really incompetent counsel, his counsel must not have been aware that he was doing…”

On the recordDecember 3, 2017
I have to think that unless he has really incompetent counsel, his counsel must not have been aware that he was doing this.
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Adam Schiff
Democratic · California

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Schiff comments on Paul Manafort's actions regarding his bail conditions.

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