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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.
I think what that means is a couple of things. One is people have speculated well could Donald Trump actually be the speaker, because you don`t need to be in Congress to be speaker, the reality is, he would need to be the speaker, because…
We are of one mind. Anyone who does not comply, we will refer for criminal prosecution and there needs to be accountability.
The man who warned us, in the first Trump impeachment trial, that Donald Trump would do it again, has a new warning for us. Republican legislatures, all across the country have continued Trump`s big lie about massive voter fraud initiating…
No Constitution can protect us. Right does not matter anymore. You know, you can`t trust this president do what`s right for this country. You can trust he`ll do what`s right for Donald Trump. He`ll do it now. He`s done it before. He`ll do…
He is required to show up he is required to testify and if he doesn`t, and doesn`t have a reason, a legal reason to profit which he doesn`t, then we will hold him in criminal contempt. And we will refer that to the Justice Department for…
Disaster, because he will do anything that Donald Trump tells him. And we cannot have someone with absolutely no reverence for the truth, no willingness to uphold his oath, in that position in line to the presidency.
It`s not Donald Trump`s Justice Department anymore. It`s the Justice Department that believes it serves the public interest, not the interest of the person of the president.
The reason we couldn't do this in the past is because we had Bill Barr and the Trump D.O.J. Well, now we have a new person.
We're not willing to allow them to play rope-a-dope in the civil courts that way. That's why we're going to go straight to criminal contempt and expect the Justice Department unlike the last one to uphold the principle that no one is above…
The greater danger, frankly, to the country is what is going on around the nation. People pushing the former president's big lie about the election ushering in a new slate of laws to strip independent elections officials of their duties…
If witnesses do not show up, we will hold them in criminal contempt. We will vote them in contempt in the House. And we will refer them for prosecution.
This book will stand as the touchstone of truth against any attempts to distort or rewrite this crucial piece of history.
That story, the story of how good people were persuaded to abandon their beliefs and ideology, their dedication to something larger than themselves and their ambition, came to embrace an ugly Nativism that their party had long held at bay…
It is only human agency, the willingness of individual people to be brave and speak truth to power and bear the consequences of it. That is the only thing that will get us out of what remains an existential danger to us as a democracy.
First things first -- what exactly did the Trump campaign do in the 2016 election and what was its relationship with Russia and its agents?
We're not messing around. If people don't show up, if people don't provide the documents they're compelled to, we intend to take up criminal contempt and refer to the Justice Department and we expect that it will be prosecuted that unlike…
It was really astounding to me that someone as deeply flawed as Donald Trump in a matter of four short years or less could completely remake one of America`s great political parties in his flawed image but he did.
It’s obviously a very different situation now, and we will hope and count on the Biden Justice Department and the new attorney general to enforce the rule of law.
We want to get to the bottom of all the facts, what led up to that insurrection, what planning went into it, who was organizing the rally, what expectation they had about potential violence or planned violence that day.
What did we know, what did the planners know, what did the president know about who was showing up? And was it part of the plan that, if they couldn’t get the vice president to violate the Constitution and decertify the results from this…
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