Adam Schiff

In our past hearings, you have seen direct evidence that President Trump sent a crowd of his supporters to the Capitol on January 6th knowing they were armed and angry.

His intent was plain: Ignore the rule of law and stay in power.

I think people need to understand that what this is is a press release and basically a press for, you know, Russian consumption, event that he`s going to be hosting in Moscow. This is not based on anything that actually took place. It is a…

This PR exercise because they`re losing ground. They`re losing momentum. They`re losing public support. They have to mobilize now.

I can’t comment on the particulars. I can say that, you know, each of the issues that Mr. Riggleman raised during the period he was with Committee which ended, you know, quite some time ago, we looked into.

It will be, certainly, I think, my recommendation, my feeling that we should make referrals. But we will get to a decision as a committee, and we will all abide by that decision, and I will join our committee members if they feel…

We want to know what she knows, what her involvement was in this plot to overturn the election.

Now is the time for our committee and this Congress to look to the future. It is my hope that this legislation becomes one of the most significant pieces of our legacy, that it makes our Constitution, our country, and our democracy…

What about the president?

We may also have a hearing or hearings of a factual nature of the kind that we have had in the past.

And I think you are absolutely right in your characterization of Senator Graham and the dangerous irresponsibility of what he is saying.

I think if our form of government if you have members of one party who out of a blind obedience to their party leader want to essentially tear down law enforcement, turn down the Justice Department because their party leader may have…

It is something the public will learn more about. I don`t know that I can say there will be a specific hearing on this topic or that. We haven`t -- we`re not prepared to make any announcements.

And now you see sort of the crackpot caucus growing within the GOP conference, what a terrible turn of events it is for the country.

He tried to cheat and he got caught.

The redacted affidavit makes clear Trump kept highly classified national defense information at the public resort. If that wasn`t alarming enough, some of it wasn`t even in folders, merely intermixed with news clips and other debris.

I still am concerned that as to even more serious allegations of misconduct around January 6, the attempt to overturn the election, that the department has still been moving very, very slowly.

But nonetheless, here he is engaging in exactly the kind of misconduct he was accusing others of, engaging in exactly the kind of misconduct he`s saying is disqualifying. In Trump`s case, it should be disqualifying.

There is no reason why the Fulton County district attorney`s office should be so far out ahead of the Justice Department in its investigation of their former presidents efforts to overturn the election in Georgia.

I think what is particularly interesting about what you are mentioning is Trump`s own view of the materials because that puts him right in the middle of this.

I am encouraged by the steps that we are willing to take, with respect to the documents at Mar-a-Lago, which, among having some of those highly classified markings on them, pose a real danger for national security, should they fall into…

But yes, Trump felt immune, and to some degree, may still feel immune, as long as he is a political (AUDIO GAP) as long as he is in the mix, I think it`s one of the motivations he has to once again run for the presidency, which is, to stay…

Well, yes. I mean, he certainly had that expectation during his presidency because that is exactly how the department of justice was run.

The request I made so far is for a damage assessment by the intelligence community. It`s something they traditionally due to determine if this material is compromised, if it did get in the wrong hands, what is the damage, and how do we…

What has struck me about this story from the beginning... is the degree to which evidence seems to be coming forward of willfulness.