Adam Schiff

I don't think he cares at all whether this passes constitutional muster. Certainly doesn't care whether it's constitutional.

It will certainly be challenged in the courts and it will be stopped in the courts. I think it is likely, although speaking just for myself and not as a representative of the leadership that we will have an opportunity to vote and…

They will be forced to go on the record of whether they're going to defend the Constitution or they're going to merely do the president's will.

If it was an emergency every time the president of the United States couldn't get what they wanted from Congress, we would be in a constant state of emergency.

The president's emergency declaration is plainly unconstitutional.

There is a complete and I think it's a groupthink lack of political courage in the GOP right now.

The fact that Mitch McConnell would warn him privately, but then do a complete 180 and publicly embrace this shows you just the kind of capitulation that is endangering the rule of law in our system of checks and balances.

The president has had two years of a Congress that would simply do no oversight whatsoever. And so the idea of meaningful oversight, the idea of Congress is a coequal branch clearly terrifies the president.

The investigation is going to be broad, it's not going to be circumscribed

We're not going to turn and look the other way when we see corruption or malfeasance.

We are certainly ready to find common ground on border security.

This is a man who cannot be trusted to be president of the United States to put the U.S.'s interests first and foremost above his own.

I know how you feel. Let's all be honest. We know the president's guilty, whether or not you're willing to come out and admit that, you know what he did was wrong.

You can say a lot of things about President Trump but he is not led by the nose by Rudy Giuliani.

I join my colleagues on a bipartisan basis, and I thank my colleague from Texas for his support to disapprove of this relaxation of sanctions on Russia and Mr. Deripaska, and to urge the rest of the Congress to join us. Mr. McCAUL. Mr…

The more the president acts in the Russian interest, these revelations that he wanted to withdraw from NATO and kept bringing up withdrawing from NATO, I mean, that is an idea so much at odds with our national security interests on a very…

And it kind of begs the imagination why this private, secret conversation with Putin.

It is. This is such an otherworldly situation where you got the Kremlin denying that the president of the United States was working as an agent for them.

If the president destroyed any record of that meeting, that's a separate issue and a separate problem.

We do want to pursue this. I've been in discussion with my counterparts on the foreign affairs committee.

The question is, were the Russians laundering money through the Trump organization and that will be a very high priority that -- to get an answer to.

They've paid hundreds of millions of dollars and fines to the state of New York, because they were laundering Russian money. And this apparently was the one bank that was willing to do business with the Trump Organization. Now, is that a…

My takeaway is there's a real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him.

I would hope if there's any effort to obstruct the investigation like the firing of Rod Rosenstein, that Congress would pass a bill in stating the independent counsel law that would protect Bob Mueller.

Well, if Rosenstein were to be fired, this would be another clear demonstration of obstruction of justice by the president.