Adam Schiff

I think we can expect that we will see a massive military campaign by the Russians that may very quickly overwhelm Ukrainian forces. I do not think we should judge whether that campaign by Putin will be successful in the first hours, days…

We can’t allow Russia’s controlling resources to continue to be leveraged over our allies.

This is a momentous and tragic day when, once again, we see a dictator in Europe trying to remake the map of Europe by using his military power.

I think nothing less than the international rules-based order is at stake here.

Ukrainians are a tenacious people and they will defend their homeland. They will defend their ability to decide their own destiny and not to be controlled by the Kremlin.

This is Putin's war. This is naked aggression. And I think it is disastrous.

Sadly, Lawrence, I think a full invasion is underway. The Russians will try to decapitate Ukrainian defenses. They will, in addition to the cyberattacks, they are shutting down the airspace and going after Ukrainian military assets, trying…

Well, you know, it would be a permanent end to the Nord Stream Pipeline.

Look, I'd like to see it all put in place ASAP, both because I think it's necessary. But I don't see the point in waiting if we can get our allies to come along with us.

So, the consequences globally, the consequences to the international rules based order could not be higher, which is why we have to make sure that if Putin goes forward with this invasion more fully than he has already, that the costs to…

Well, it depends on whether we and our NATO allies stick together and embark on an even more severe set of sanctions, which I fully believe and expect that we will.

Well, the Russians, I think have amassed all the forces they need to fully invade the country. They've already begun that of invasion. But they could very quickly move to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev.

It looks very willful and if there`s evidence of potential willfulness and the destruction of documents, that is the kind of case that if any cases going to be prosecuted might be prosecuted.

That's the kind of thing you see in the third world. You don't expect to see that in what we would hope would be the most -- the best democracy in the world, but it is real tin pot dictator kind of stuff.

It would be, I think, intolerable for the department to have investigated Hillary Clinton over handling of classified e-mails and ignore allegations that Donald Trump may have brought the classified documents and violated classification by…

I think they're absolutely right to make the referral to Justice Department, because there is public reporting and the Archives may know more than this that the President was repeatedly warned that that he couldn't destroy these documents…

Do you think there's any possible criminal exposure, particularly if there are any classified documents he took to Mar-a-Lago as 'The New York Times' is reporting tonight?

The Republican Party has decided rather than repudiate what went into that violence of January 6th, rather than repudiate the big lie about the elections that drove people to that violence, they`re using that line all around the country to…

I think if you or I or any of your viewers were on the phone recording the conversation like thought, we would be under investigation.

Our goal is really to fully analyze what went into this multipronged effort to overturn election and how we protect our democracy going forward.

They`re pursuing the violence in January 6 vigorously and including people who were not present, but nonetheless, were involved in a seditious conspiracy, where I have less confidence is other efforts to overturn the election, such as the…

If Jeff Bezos can pay to dismantle a bridge in the Netherlands to fit his super yacht, then his company should have no trouble paying its fair share in taxes, so we can build bridges in America.

It`s always unfortunately been my suspicion that Putin intends to invade. That this will be a massive invasion, that it`s even possible that he rolls tanks into Kyiv.

I think, Lawrence, his counsel did acknowledge when we had a contempt proceeding earlier involving Mr. Clark, despite him invoking the Fifth, and that is specter for someone at the top of the Justice Department, as indicated previously by…

We want to fully flush out the facts. How close did this come to being operationalized? What kind of pushback did they receive? Who was a part of this particular scheme? We want to answer all those questions.