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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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Nov 12, 2020

We may. You know, certainly I think you're absolutely right about the fact that this wouldn't be going on right now. This obstruction of the transition wouldn't be going on if Republicans weren't allowing it to go on.

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Nov 12, 2020

I think you're absolutely right. It's about two things. It's about Georgia and it's about 2024. It's about Mitch McConnell not wanting to upset Donald Trump when the Senate majority may hang in a balance of Georgia.

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Nov 11, 2020

I do have confidence that The Pentagon isn't going to go along with a military coup.

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Nov 11, 2020

This is how a democracy is smothered.

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Nov 11, 2020

The transition period as being a period of real vulnerability when the nation can be unprotected if that transition doesn't go quickly, it doesn't go smoothly.

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Nov 11, 2020

You are one of a handful of people who gets the highest intelligence that this country has access to, and there are concerns that others in the Intelligence Community have raised that this is the moment that America has to be strong.

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Nov 11, 2020

The President is going to do whatever he can to cling to power. That's what autocrats do.

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Nov 11, 2020

The President refuses to concede, although that is a body blow to our democracy.

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Nov 11, 2020

We have new reporting tonight on Donald Trump's efforts to fire senior Pentagon leaders and install staunch loyalists in their place.

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Nov 9, 2020

Bill Barr has decided that from his first stay in the Attorney General's office to his last he will be Donald Trump's personal lawyer.

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Nov 9, 2020

The president has shown also in how he's handling this transition, something that's been abundantly clear now for years, and that is he will never act in the nation's interest if it conflicts with his own personal interest.

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Oct 21, 2020

The goal here is the sanctity of our elections, to make sure that every American gets the vote. Their vote gets counted. It's not interfered with by foreign powers.

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Oct 21, 2020

I think we can rely on what the director of the FBI has to say. And he didn't have much to say tonight but he does have a history of speaking truth to power, unlike so many in the current administration.

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Oct 1, 2020

It is the most important election you are ever going to participate in.

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Oct 1, 2020

Those who work with Donald Trump and understand what a threat he poses to the country cannot in good conscious remain silent anymore.

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Sep 28, 2020

It's just incomprehensible how much damage they're doing to our national security.

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Sep 28, 2020

I think the sad reality is, unless the Senate were to flip, if Donald Trump remained president, he would continue to stonewall any oversight by Congress.

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Sep 28, 2020

But what the tax returns do reveal is that the president is heavily indebted. To whom he's indebted, the tax returns don't tell us. Whether he's going to be dependent on foreign powers or foreign parties, or face another bankruptcy, we…

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Sep 23, 2020

These are the statements of a would-be dictator. There's just no ignoring them anymore.

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Sep 23, 2020

The president and his campaign and his supporter in the White House and elsewhere in the administration and in Congress have crossed into territory now where as far as they are concerned, it doesn't matter what happens on November 3rd.

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Sep 23, 2020

It is time for you to resign. If you have been debating about whether you can continue to serve the country by serving this president, you can't. It is time to resign.

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Sep 23, 2020

Our mission has to be clear, which is to make these results so overwhelming that it cannot be contested, and that the president's efforts to throw out the ballots fall on deaf ears.

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Sep 23, 2020

His autocratic intentions are as clear as the writing on the wall.

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Sep 23, 2020

Do not wait until after the election. Do not wait until we have the chaos the president wants after the election when he seeks to as he said get rid of the ballots.

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