Adam Schiff

We intend to move forward and hold him in criminal contempt. And expect and hope that the Justice Department will move with equal alacrity.

Well, legally, I think apparent by the fact that he produced thousands of documents to our Committee, which he acknowledges are not privileged, and now he is saying that well, I can't come in and testify because it would be privileged. He…

Even though they have been met with some resistance from some of these individuals, that he described them as outliers, and that they still talked to more than 250 people who have given them a lot of information about what went wrong on…

That just takes my breath away.

He seems to be following Mr. Clark`s example. And maybe he believes that his testimony would implicate him in criminal activity.

He seems to be following Mr. Clark`s example. We have a great many questions for him.

What I find even more extraordinary is you have someone in Clark, who is at the senior most levels of the Justice Department, the Department of Justice, for crying out loud, who is saying that I can`t answer certain questions because it…

I think that the Justice Department ought to be investigating for example as I’ve said, the former president’s actions in trying to overturn the election in Georgia.

I also think that, beyond the events of that day, they need to be considering whether Donald Trump, for example, with respect to Georgia, committed a crime by seeking to coerce the secretary of state of that state, Brad Raffensperger, to…

I think the Justice Department needs to consider not just those who attacked the Capitol, but those who organized the attack, those who funded the attack, if they were involved in any kind of criminal activity, provable criminal activity.

If we take the position, as the Justice Department did for four years, that you can`t prosecute a sitting president, and we now somehow take the position that we can`t prosecute a former president either because that would be looking…

I think that the Justice Department ought to be investigating for example as I`ve said the former president`s actions in trying to overturn the election in Georgia.

If he persists in lying then, he will be accountable under the laws of this great Nation and subject to criminal penalties for every false word he speaks.

This Committee's investigation into the violent assaults on our Capitol on January 6th is not a game.

President Trump continues to make the same false claims about a stolen election with which he has misled millions of Americans.

He was involved in discussions with the former president, with high-ranking Justice Department officials about efforts to get Georgia and other states to either withhold the appointment of electors or to send alternate slates of electors.

I think we will probably make a decision this week. We are moving with alacrity with anyone who obstructs the committee, and that was certainly the case with Mr. Bannon. It will be the case with Mr. Meadows, Mr. Clark or any others.

So will others show courage the way that Adam Kinzinger or Liz Cheney and a few others have? I don't know. But it just shows I think, the dangerous state that the Republican conferences in today will have fealty to a president who…

If they're a partisan court, if that's all that the Supreme Court has become an instrument of one party, that is the Republican Party, then all bets are off.

The circumstances are such as the President Biden has indicated, where any privilege has to give way to the public's need to know that this was a violent attack on the Capitol.

It's not up to the former president. It's up to the current president.

That's not much of an argument. But that's basically what they're saying, we will be vindictive, we will draw some false equivalence, and we will abuse our power if we're given it again.

There is so much we don’t know about what went into the pressure campaign against the vice president to try to call on him to force him to ignore his constitutional duty.

The committee would move quickly to also hold Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress.

I'm confident we will move very quickly with respect to Mr. Meadows also. But we want to make sure that we have the strongest possible case to present to the Justice Department and for the Justice Department to present to a grand jury.