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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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Jan 9, 2018

Of course not, the President seems to repeat this as a mantra, no collision, no collision, no collision.

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Dec 18, 2017

The ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is warning that Republicans are trying to shut down the committee's Russia investigation.

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Dec 18, 2017

I think the president is allowing himself to be manipulated by Putin. Putin knows because the Kremlin does a psychological profile, I'm sure, of world leaders, what the president's strengths and weaknesses are, and knows because this is…

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Dec 18, 2017

I can't get an answer, and that tells me that there may very well be marching orders from the top, that I think going to bring this into an end.

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Dec 18, 2017

This seems to be a genetic trait. But the reality is that I think our FBI and our Department of Justice have a lot of really dedicated public servants, whose work is being maligned right now because there are some efforts to tear down…

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Dec 18, 2017

Well, he apparently forgets the fact that in realtime what happened last year was the director of the FBI talked about an investigation into Hillary Clinton, even 10 days or less before an election, but did not tell the country that there…

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Dec 14, 2017

The attacks on Mueller, DOJ and FBI this week make it clear they plan to go after Mueller's investigation aggressively and soon.

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Dec 3, 2017

I think he's dead in the water in terms of getting any further relaxation of his conditions of effectively home confinement.

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Dec 3, 2017

I think rather he would make a report to Congress that might say this is what I found and if he found evidence of obstruction, here's the evidence.

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Dec 3, 2017

I don't think the Congress would ever tolerate a president willfully obstructing justice.

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Dec 3, 2017

If she said to the Senate, I'm not aware of these conversations, and she was one of those senior transition officials and those e-mails if they're accurate that have been publicly released, it certainly appears that was a directly false…

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Dec 3, 2017

It would be an absurd result to say that the president could interfere with investigations involving himself or others potentially.

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Dec 3, 2017

I believe the president is no more above the law than any other American.

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Dec 3, 2017

I have to think that unless he has really incompetent counsel, his counsel must not have been aware that he was doing this.

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Oct 31, 2017

I think we are seeing in Congress a response to what Bannon is urging, what the president is urging. I don't think it's in the interests of our investigation and I do think it's an effort to distract and place the focus elsewhere.

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Oct 31, 2017

I'm particularly disturbed, Anderson, that the president and White House have violated Department of Justice policy by intervening with the Department of Justice in order to push forward this investigation of Hillary Clinton. It's yet…

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Oct 31, 2017

No, I don't think that's accurate at all. But, of course, this is part of a pattern that we have seen where -- when any of these contacts are exposed, the Trump campaign tries to diminish their significance.

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Oct 23, 2017

It's very, very important to our democracy. They hacked the RNC and the DNC, both parties.

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Oct 23, 2017

We've got to get together on this stuff.

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Oct 23, 2017

We should be bipartisan about the integrity of our elections.

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Oct 2, 2017

We still don't know if anyone in the Trump campaign was involved in the Russia ad campaign effort.

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Jul 28, 2017

Happy birthday. Madam Speaker, I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Castro), who will now sing Happy Birthday for you.

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Jul 28, 2017

I want to express my agreement with Leader Pelosi's comments on the continuing need for the appointment of an independent commission. An independent commission would have the dedicated focus, the distance from any potential political…

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Jul 23, 2017

If that offer to come back is not accepted that they would reserve the right to subpoena him, to force him to come back.

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