Adam Schiff

He`s essentially trying to undermine his own branch to protect this former president. It shows just what a sacrifice of our own institutional interests McCarthy is willing to undertake to protect this would-be autocrat.

Well, first, Lawrence, I just want to say how refreshing it is to see Zelensky finally get that White House meeting and with President Biden. After all, it was Trump`s effort to try to sneer Biden, to try to weaken him as a political…

So what McCarthy is doing now by issuing the statement threatening the telecoms if comply with a lawful process by select committee, he will punish them if he should be the speaker one day.

He is a danger to the country because he will do it again, and none of us can have confidence based on his record that he will not do it again because he is telling us every day that he will.

Well, it`s a threat and it is a threat to premised on a falsehood that somehow asking these companies to preserve records were ultimately -- to turn over records of people involved in an insurrection is somehow against the law.

What he is saying is if elections continue to be rigged, he may find it necessary to take up arms. Well, of course, the election wasn`t rigged.

McCarthy, look, he’s scared. And I think his boss is scared. They didn’t want this commission and this select committee to go forward.

Nobody is off-limits here -- that is, if any member of Congress, any member of the former administration, or the former president himself, in whatever capacity, was involved in this attack on our governance, then we are going to follow the…

I think it`s possible but I think it`s very unlikely. Now I`m certainly of the view that we maintain a military presence as long as it`s necessary to get all U.S. persons out and to meet our moral and ethical obligation to our Afghan…

The decision to get out is the right decision.

I don`t think we can accept as a premise that the chaos we saw, particularly very early on, but which has continued, was inevitable.

If any member of Congress, any member of the former administration, or the former president himself, in whatever capacity, was involved in this attack on our governance, then we are going to follow the facts where they lead.

Well, that`s absolutely right. And first of all, I very much agree with Professor Hasen about how close we came to losing our democracy and not merely on the sixth through that failed insurrection but through other means.

And you know, that, to me is the gravamen of an offense and of a criminal investigation.

Well, I do. Ultimately, the chairman of our subcommittee will make the decision in consultation with all of us about witnesses, but I think their testimony would plainly be relevant.

It's tragic, but it's true, because they believe that the lie, the big lie, the President was pushing out.

It seems to cross the line into illegality. And it is very much deserving of investigation.

Anyone else doing that would have been prosecuted already.

We find again, and again, just how close we came to losing our democracy.

It means that one of the major obstacles that we encountered over the last four years and getting answers may not be an obstacle.

Those insurrectionists, many of them, they believed what they were doing was ordered by the commander in chief. They believe that the election had been stolen.

I can. You know, I think that all of the members are determined to get to the truth and follow the evidence where it leads of people with relevant knowledge of what went into the planning of that violent attack on the Capitol.

Well, it`s interesting that you had introduced the segment this way because that was exactly my feeling walking out of that hearing today, which is my God, we got to hear from the witnesses.

Yes, I do. We want to make sure for example when we request documents that we get all of them.

We will follow the evidence wherever it leads and to whomever it leads.