Adam Schiff

The constitutional referendum that they passed was to clamp down on opposition, was to consolidate authoritarian power.

The leader of the free world doesn't call up, you know, a dictator and congratulate him on winning a sham election.

The President has been unwilling to do this.

The history is going to judge the Republicans very harshly for their decision to essentially cede oversight on this key issue.

The GOP committee members, in his words, 'placed the interest of protecting the President over protecting the country and history will judge its actions harshly.'

Well, we'd certainly like to know the basis in which he makes that statement. There certainly were comments by the President about you're going to learn something on Monday about Hillary Clinton. We're share something you'll find very…

We should have called them out much earlier while I respect the motive in terms of the Obama administration, they didn't want to be seen as meddling. The American people had a right to know what was going on and could be trust to do the…

I will gladly work with the administration to come to a memo that can be released.

Today he declined to comment saying, 'You know the rules.'

What it end up delivering is criticism of a single FISA application involving Carter Page and its renewals that cherry picks information that doesn't tell the reader the whole of the application and is, as the DOJ and FBI have said, deeply…

The memo now at the White House is actually not the exact memo that republicans on the committee voted to release. That it's been altered.

This is the first time we have heard directly. We are investigating the FBI and the DOJ.

I asked for that to be available tomorrow, and you will see the president or -- the chairman directly assert we are investigating the FBI and we are investigating the Department of Justice.

To benefit the president of the United States, but also to protect themselves.

This is designed to undermine the FBI, undermine the Department of Justice, create uncertainty and doubt about the professionalism of the people of the bureau.

Absolutely. Intentionally misleading, absolutely intentionally misleading.

They know that's unsustainable.

This is exactly what they were doing. I used to be a prosecutor and tried and true defense tactic when the facts are really bad for the defendant, you try to put the government on trial.

It's political. It's just -- this is a continuation of the effort to protect the president's hide, push out a misleading narrative, selectively declassify information.

As I said to my committee colleagues during this hearing, sadly, we can fully expect that the president United States will not put the national interest over his own personal interest.

We had votes today to politicize the intelligence process, to prohibit the FBI and the Department of Justice from expressing their concerns to our committee and to the House, and to selectively release to the public only the majority's…

The problem is the White House is not their client, this shouldn't be, we shouldn't be prosecutors, they shouldn't be defense counsel, they should all be investigators here but unfortunately that is not the role I think that many of my…

I mean, we'll put an end to it because this is really not based on fact, this is based on the desire to create a political narrative to distract attention frankly from what the Russians did and the connections between the Russians and the…

You know, I'm reserving judgment on what we'll ultimately find and I voted against the impeachment of resolution we have in the House because I think we need to finish our investigation and determine the strength of the evidence and what…

I think we have seen evidence of collusion, the question is -- ultimately for Bob Mueller, is there proof beyond a reasonable doubt such that he would feel comfortable seeking an indictment or seeking to go before jury and make the case.