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Adam Schiff

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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.

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Dec 10, 2021

there were very different lanes of effort, all intended to overturn the election.

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Dec 9, 2021

It`s a very important. You know, of course, we don`t know all that`s in there, but we have received cooperation from any number of witnesses including for a time Mark Meadows. So, we know some of what`s in the archives.

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Dec 9, 2021

You know, it is staggering but I think that`s exactly what was going on. This was not some spur-of-the-moment thing. This was a well-concerted plan that began with laying the foundation before the election by positing that any vote counted…

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Dec 9, 2021

It really does and it`s absurd argument to begin with, and made more absurd by the fact that it`s made by a former member of Congress. He`s basically saying Congress has no legislative -- no proper purpose in investigating an attack on…

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Dec 9, 2021

Well, I think the two things that were really significant about it. The first was how quickly they took up the case and how quickly they arrived at a decision, but also the overwhelming nature of that decision, and the real invitation to…

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Dec 9, 2021

I think the courts understand that during the Trump years that he effectively played rope-a-dope in the case of former White House Counsel Don McGahn. He was able to stall for over two years before that official was deposed. And I don`t…

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Dec 8, 2021

Well, it`s a frivolous effort to try to delay matters or to appease the former president.

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Dec 8, 2021

We don`t want another, and getting to the full ground truth of who was involved, the president, members of Congress, the chief of staff, whoever was involved, they`re trying to overturn our election, we need to get to the bottom of it, and…

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Dec 8, 2021

I think it`s a very superficial filing meant to try to obstruct install. He`s really in a compromised legal position because he`s provided information to committee which acknowledges is not privileged, and yet he`s refused to appear to…

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Dec 8, 2021

This is exactly why we need these witnesses to testify so we can understand what part of this plot to overturn the election was the White House involved in, what part was the president personally involved in.

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Dec 8, 2021

I think it will happen very soon.

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Dec 7, 2021

Some of that reporting was among the first reporting that the Russians were helping Donald Trump and his campaign, and that the orders to help Trump Campaign were coming from the very top of the Kremlin, indeed, coming from Vladimir Putin.

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Dec 7, 2021

It doesn't change the fact that Donald Trump's Campaign Chairman was secretly meeting with Russian Intelligence and providing Russian Intelligence internal campaign polling data and a strategy for key battleground states while the Kremlin…

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Dec 7, 2021

We do and we will. We will do whatever is necessary to make sure that we get the information we need to legislate and protect the country.

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Dec 7, 2021

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

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Dec 7, 2021

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…

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Dec 6, 2021

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…

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Dec 3, 2021

That just takes my breath away.

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Dec 3, 2021

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.

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Dec 3, 2021

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

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Dec 3, 2021

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…

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Dec 3, 2021

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

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Dec 2, 2021

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…

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Dec 2, 2021

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…

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Dec 2, 2021

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.

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