Adam Schiff

The president has probably broader fears than that about his children.

Let's say that the Southern District of New York indicted Individual No. 1, who is known to be the president of the United States, in a campaign fraud scheme that the Southern District has already charged Individual 1 coordinated and…

It's been essentially a den of thieves environment.

With the initiation of this investigation and now with this, what I think will be an unsuccessful attempt to prolong the investigation through this secret appointment only disclosed now of Durham as a special counsel.

There may be issues, even though the pardon would be a federal act, that nonetheless violate state law.

Someone in this conspiracy has to have a close enough relationship to the president or people around the president to make it happen.

If the president was involved, he would not be immune from prosecution for it.

We will have to provide a statutory basis for the security briefings of the upcoming president, so we don't have that kind of catastrophe again.

That is a very dangerous poison for Donald Trump to put into the well of the American people.

Well, like Bill Barr, from beginning to end, Donald Trump has been an anti-democratic president, came in tearing down our democratic institutions, and, on the way out, is tearing down more, among the most important of our institutions.

It's a bit, frankly, like the investigation he announced was apparently coming to an end, and that is over election interference.

It's also, I think, incumbent on us even if we can't prevent this president's abuse of the pardon power, to make sure that the power is not abused in the future.

By giving him a pardon now, imagine the signal that sends to our Russian adversary, that essentially, you know, the president can make Russia's problems go away by dismissing a case against someone who had lied on their behalf.

One of the premises behind our Constitution is that no one is adjudge of their own case. We are bound by the rule of law. We are a nation of laws, not individuals.

I would say this. It doesn't literally impact whether the president can pardon himself or whether that will be enforceable in court. In fact, I'm quite confident that's unconstitutional.

Joe Biden won. He won handily six million votes more than the other guy.

We do have a role and we're trying to execute that role.

The voters have decided, that's still not good enough for them.

Anyone that had the audacity to speak truth to power, anybody that wouldn't carry the President false line would get fired.

It's pathetic, but sadly predictable that upholding and protecting our democratic processes would be cause for firing.

The one true line of the presidency is he does whatever he thinks is in his personal interest and he is personally vindictive.

The idea being promoted by the president and his acolytes that Americans shouldn't rely on this election, that the election of Joe Biden was somehow tainted by massive fraud, which is, of course, a completely bogus claim, but undermines…

The absence of those is really a danger to the country.

In a pandemic that is killing more than 1,000 Americans every day, the stakes are enormously high.

I do expect in the new Congress that, yes, they'll continue to try to go after Joe Biden, delegitimize Joe Biden. They won't be interested in getting things done because they will feel particularly Kevin McCarthy in the House, that if we…