Adam Schiff

Our democracy held because courageous people like those you heard from today put their oath to the Constitution above their loyalty to one man or to one party. The system held but barely. And the question remains, will it hold again?

What frightens me about the prospect of Republican leadership in the House is, Kevin McCarthy tried to overturn the last election.

No one is above the law.

Yes, I think he understood that he lost the election.

Days after the tragic events of January 6th, some of these same Republican Members requested pardons in the waning days of the Trump administration.

Some of them failed to uphold theirs and, instead, chose to spread the big lie.

The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you have committed a crime.

Really just how premeditated it all was, how it started with a big lie that the President was told over and over and over again by his attorney general, a deputy by his U.S. Attorney in Georgia by others was a big lie. But that didn’t…

The President's lie was and is a dangerous cancer on the body politic.

In addition to the personal impact this experience has had on you and your family, one of the things that I find most disturbing is how these lies discourage longtime election workers from continuing to do this important work.

If the most powerful person in the world can bring the full weight of the presidency down on an ordinary citizen, who among us is safe? None of us is, none of us.

The whole effort to pressure the state legislatures and legislators was premised on a big lie about a massive fraud that didn`t exist.

We have an obligation for Congress, as Barbara McQuade is pointing out, quite independent of the Justice Department rather prosecutors. That is to protect our democracy and our institutions.

This brought effort to overturn an election. And you`ll see just with the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials.

We will explore the role that was played by the president by his campaign, by lawyers present some of the evidence that we have accumulated to explain how that plot to pressure these legislative officials took place.

This was, I think, really unprecedented in U.S. history, this broad effort to overturn a presidential election and you`ll see just what the weight of the presidency brought down on these officials.

Ruby Freeman said that the President is supposed to protect every American, not target them. She is right.

When Donald Trump used the power of the Presidency to try to stay in office after losing the election to Joe Biden, he broke that sacred and centuries-old covenant.

For more than 200 years, our democracy has been distinguished by the peaceful transfer of power.

No election worker should be subject to such heinous treatment just for doing their job.

Donald Trump attacked you and your mother, using her name, 18 times on that call--18 times.

I would like to show you some of the statements that Rudy Giuliani made in a second hearing...

None of that was true, was it?

You have served not only your home States but our Nation and our democracy.

Finally, the President claims that there was a minimum of 18,000 ballots somehow smuggled in, all for Biden. I take it, gentlemen, that was also categorically false?