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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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Apr 29, 2021

Senator Ron Johnson acknowledges that he was given a warning by the FBI, and he was in contact with some of the same people that Giuliani was, and with the same purpose of trying to get dirt on Joe Biden.

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Apr 29, 2021

if he was doing work for them, at the same time, he was doing work for the President and not registering as an agent of a foreign power, then that could put him in really serious legal trouble.

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Apr 29, 2021

Giuliani was there pursuing business interest but also pursuing this smear against the Biden's to try and help his client, the president of the United States.

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Apr 28, 2021

It's great to have a president who is hands off in terms of the Justice Department. It's great to have an attorney general who is not bringing cases or announcing investigations for political reasons or intervening in sentencings, like…

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Apr 28, 2021

Donald Trump chose Rudy Giuliani over his own intelligence agencies. He chose Rudy Giuliani over his own FBI director. He chose Rudy Giuliani over his own national security advisors. When all of them were telling him this Ukraine 2016…

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Apr 28, 2021

It’s great to have a president who is hands off in terms of the Justice Department. It’s great to have an attorney general who is not bringing cases or announcing investigations for political reasons or intervening in sentencings, like…

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Apr 20, 2021

An open letter to President Joseph Biden: Mr. President, in just 5 days, the world will mark the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the Armenian genocide, the systematic murder and displacement of 1.5 million Armenian women, men, and…

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Apr 2, 2021

it’s so novel even to get a read-out of a presidential call with a foreign leader and feel good about it.

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Apr 2, 2021

these people had attacked the Capitol are guilty of domestic terrorism and we have a real white nationalist domestic terror threat that now eclipses the threat from international terrorism, and we darn well better take it seriously.

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Apr 2, 2021

we want to try to strike that balance between security and accessibility, but clearly, we`re not ready to take the fences and all the barriers down. The Capitol is still very much a target.

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Apr 2, 2021

These police officers, we get to know them, those of us that have had security details from time to time. They get to know our families. And to lose another officer and have another officer also injured, it`s just devastating.

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Mar 16, 2021

You can commit conspiracy to defraud, for example U.S. elections, or conspiracy to violate U.S. campaign laws by receiving foreign opposition research or derogatory information whether it’s truthful or untruthful.

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Mar 16, 2021

The requirement that the report be declassified was an attempt to at least try to hold them accountable so they would know at some point those deceptions would be disclosed.

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Mar 16, 2021

But on a night like this, it’s really paying off in terms of our understanding.

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Mar 16, 2021

The best defense is for both parties to commit to reject foreign interference no matter who it helps.

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Mar 12, 2021

Nothing was more important for him than to stop -- not the steal -- but to stop the transfer of power.

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Mar 12, 2021

The reason why Trump’s lawyers couldn’t answer that question is because the truthful answer is he did nothing to protect Mike Pence because he didn’t care, because he doesn’t care.

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Mar 12, 2021

Well, I give her a lot of credit for having the courage to speak up about that and also for her vote on the impeachment in the House of Representatives.

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Mar 12, 2021

But nonetheless, that a majority of senators found that this president should be disqualified, is guilty of inciting insurrection -- it’s a pretty powerful statement.

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Mar 9, 2021

I think this is a very important part of the investigation, and really at least a couple main components.

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Mar 9, 2021

It`s going to be important for the FBI to get answers and it`s going to be important for Congress to get answers and part of that is to bring justice, to find people accountable.

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Mar 9, 2021

President Biden is going to have a bill signing of his first big legislative victory only because Democrats won two Senate seats in Georgia and Republicans in Georgia are now trying to prevent that from ever happening again.

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Mar 9, 2021

It really makes sense if we want a body with a stature of the 9/11 commission to make recommendations for the future that we establish that commission.

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Mar 9, 2021

You do have a Senate that is willing to take on the tough issues.

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Mar 3, 2021

They don`t have to change their policies. They could have -- continue to have backward regressive policies. They don`t have to appeal to what their constituents want, as long as they can essentially prohibit people from voting who won`t…

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