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Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has played a significant role in various legislative efforts and is known for his work on national security and intelligence issues. He served as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he was involved in high-profile investigations and oversight of intelligence agencies.
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…
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.
Well, yes. I mean, he certainly had that expectation during his presidency because that is exactly how the department of justice was run.
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.
It`s staggering for all the reasons that you mentioned, just the sheer volume of classified documents. It`s not like there was a classified paper mixed in with a bunch of unrelated information. It seems that it must be quite deliberate if…
What has struck me about this story from the beginning... is the degree to which evidence seems to be coming forward of willfulness.
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…
You have a former president who is literally willing to pull the whole house down around him if he feels threatened.
He has betrayed our national security and he will do so again. He has compromised our elections and he will do so again. You will not change him, you cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What’s right matters…
Sadly, the big lie and the big liars are still ascendant sentiment within Donald Trump`s Republican Party.
It is our goal, Lawrence, to finish our work the session. We intend to have more hearings in the fall, we intend to produce our report and our recommendations into as much as we can to act on those recommendations.
Well, all I know about the actual materials is what was in that search warrant inventory.
the fact that they were in an unsecure place that is guarded with nothing more than a padlock or whatever security they had at a hotel is deeply alarming.
the reaction of many of my Republican colleagues and those around the former president to attack the FBI over this and endanger FBI agents is just another damaging level of irresponsibility.
I can tell you, anyone in the intelligence community that had documents like that marked top secret, SCI, in their residence after authorities went to them, they would be under serious investigation.
The idea that, 18 months after the fact Donald Trump could simply announce, well, I'm retroactively declassifying or whatever I took home had the effect of declassifying them is absurd.
That is among the highest of designation in terms of the extremely grave damage to national security that could be done if it were disclosed.
And the idea that 18 months after the fact Donald Trump could simply announce, Well, you know, retroactive actively declassifying or whatever I took home had the effect of declassifying them is absurd.
I have asked for, along with Chairman Maloney, a damage assessment by the intelligence community and a briefing to Congress.
I think there was evidence that the former president engaged in multiple violations of the law.
There are other actions beyond the violence of that day that need to be investigated.
I think the Attorney General today was saying all the right things and I noticed a difference -- at least I perceived the difference between what he`d been saying earlier about focusing on all those involved in the attack on January 6, and…
All of this is really key evidence of intent. That is an intent to defraud, you know, the voters, to defraud the United States of the results of the election.
Well, you know, I think if they`re hiring criminal defense counsel then they probably have a concern about their potential criminal liability. We want to hear from these witnesses. Some we want to hear from again. We want to put them under…
Look, I've always said democracies are not defined by bad days; they're defined by how they recover from those bad days.
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