Adam Schiff

Within minutes of stepping off the Ellipse stage, Donald Trump knew about the violent attack on the Capitol.

I want you to just think of what you would have done if you were in his shoes and had the power to end the violence.

He needed to agree that he would peacefully transfer power over to the incoming administration because that's one of our fundamentals in what it means to live in a democracy.

Look, I've always said democracies are not defined by bad days; they're defined by how they recover from those bad days.

I think it's incumbent upon us to put their minds at ease, to put our own hearts at ease by investigating what happened on the 6th and making sure that it never happens again.

President Trump could have gone to the Press Briefing Room to issue a statement at any moment.

President Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home; he chose not to act.

I am confident, Lawrence, we will get to the bottom of what happened. I am less confident we will ever see those text messages, tragically.

I think it was very misleading in seeing that no records relevant were destroyed, but acknowledging records were destroyed, if they were destroyed, how did they know they were not pertinent text messages?

Donald Trump believes among other things that running for president is lucrative, but it also may help them stay one step ahead of the jail.

I have to say that statement that we saw from the Secret Service that basically there were messages lost, but none of them pertained to what we`re investigating, I don`t know how if they`re lost you can draw that conclusion with such…

Yes, we`re glad that Bill Barr finally found a line he wouldn`t cross, but he crossed a lot of lines before he got there.

It does, and I think you know again raise the question of why the Justice Department was so slow to pursue these other lines of effort to overturn the election.

I think in the next hearing, you will hear a combination of live testimony, you`ll hear part of a video testimony that you haven`t seen before.

We are far from wrapping up our work. The investigation goes on and we might have had some anticipation that we would be closer to the end of the investigation by now.

Did text messages disappear? We are seeing conflicting information from the agencies.

I sent, along with three of my fellow chairs, a preservation letter to the Department of Homeland Security that has jurisdiction over the Secret Service days after January 6 telling them preserve all the records. And, if they haven`t, we…

We are investigating this issue that this, did text messages disappeared? If they did, why did they disappear? Was this some kind of a technical mistake or was this deliberate? And we are seeing conflicting information from the agencies…

I certainly think that the Justice Department has more than enough evidence to begin an investigation involving the former president.

The only thing that has changed from last year when this passed on a unanimous voice vote to this year is, apparently, this year, some of my colleagues are willing to have the military enforce domestic policy in violation of the law and…

First of all, my colleague says that we already have laws against the military unlawfully engaging in the enforcement of domestic policy. We only have laws against certain branches of the military doing that. This bill would expand that to…

I urge support for the bill. Again, this bill does not require proceedings to be available online, but it does ensure that judges have that authority. I think that this is something that the victims would like because the victims would…

I very much share his concern and have been expressing a very similar concern really for months now.

The idea that a year and a half after these events, they would not have talked to these witnesses, that even the Fulton County district attorney is way ahead of them. It’s I think cause for great concern.

Well, I think we`ve had a conflict in the testimony on that where, as you saw, White House counsel didn`t believe that there had been an appointment, so the paperwork hadn`t been done.