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he put words in adam schiff's mouth that adam schiff didn't say. when someone like adam schiff does it, it's a crime. that's because he likes these villains. he likes to have an adversary that he can attack and go after, someone to focus on, focus his own energy on, focus his supporters on. adam schiff happens to be the target. >> even after a long day, our guests have agreed it stay on. when vladimir putin trolled our own correspondent, our president and all of us in the process. "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on a wednesday night. >>> we mention this had before the break. it's not an overstatement to put it this way. we want to show you the moment today when the president of russia trolled our own reporter, our president and all of us by extension. here was the scene, a conference in moscow, moderated by our own veteran correspondent, keir simmons, who asked putin through a translator about interference in our elections. >> is russia, as robert mueller alleged, attempting to influence the 2020 elections in the united states? >> transla
he put words in adam schiff's mouth that adam schiff didn't say. when someone like adam schiff does it, it's a crime. that's because he likes these villains. he likes to have an adversary that he can attack and go after, someone to focus on, focus his own energy on, focus his supporters on. adam schiff happens to be the target. >> even after a long day, our guests have agreed it stay on. when vladimir putin trolled our own correspondent, our president and all of us in the process....
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adam schiff made very clear today they are very serious. they are going to do serious interviews with both of these issues. they're going to push very hard for details on meetings with zelensky, conversations with giuliani, details about why the ambassador was ousted. so they are proceeding on this track aggressively as the president is fighting back increasingly wildly. >> andrew, i'll take one for the team here. at this hour last night our lead story was that all we knew was the state department inspector general had asked for an urgent meeting with congressional staff. then came the moment this afternoon. the meeting was over. a member of congress from maryland, who was within his rights to attend even though it was for staff, came out with a color photocopy of a fake white house envelope. we'll play what he said and then talk about it with you on the other side. >> it's essentially a packet of propaganda and disinformation spreading conspiracy theories. those conspiracy theories have been widely debunked and discredited. >> so, andrew,
adam schiff made very clear today they are very serious. they are going to do serious interviews with both of these issues. they're going to push very hard for details on meetings with zelensky, conversations with giuliani, details about why the ambassador was ousted. so they are proceeding on this track aggressively as the president is fighting back increasingly wildly. >> andrew, i'll take one for the team here. at this hour last night our lead story was that all we knew was the state...
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he put words in adam schiff's mouth that adam schiff didn't say. when someone like adam schiff does it, it's a crime. that's because he likes these villains. he likes to have an adversary that he can attack and go after, someone to focus on, focus his own energy on, focus his supporters on. adam schiff happens to be the target. >> even after a long day, our guests have agreed it stay on. when vladimir putin trolled our own correspondent, our president and all of us in the process. "the 11th hour" is just getting under way on a wednesday night. under way on a wednesday night that's the only circumstance to which you would separate. can't imagine doing it any other way. this is caitlin dickerson from the new york times. this isn't the only case. very little documentation. lo que yo quiero estar con mi hijo. i know that's not true. and the shelters really don't know what to do with them. i just got another person at d.h.s. to confirm this. i have this number. we're going to publish the story. pain happens. isaturdays happen.. aleve it. aleve is proven
he put words in adam schiff's mouth that adam schiff didn't say. when someone like adam schiff does it, it's a crime. that's because he likes these villains. he likes to have an adversary that he can attack and go after, someone to focus on, focus his own energy on, focus his supporters on. adam schiff happens to be the target. >> even after a long day, our guests have agreed it stay on. when vladimir putin trolled our own correspondent, our president and all of us in the process....
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adam schiff had been criticized before but seemed to be ramped up. nancy pelosi thought there was not room for impeachment when she saw the rough transcript of his call. that was inaccurate. nancy pelosi said today that the phone call itself rises to the level of impeachable offense. she called it and undermining his oath of office and our constitution. i think speaker offices likely to dispute the president. what we heard is what the president's defense going to be. he did nothing wrong and the motivation of his attackers are partisan corrupt and don't trust what the news media tells you about what's happening. >> and to nick in san francisco. a broad attack in san francisco and pelosi as well. it sounded a little bit like baltimore. >> you know i will tell you, i love san francisco, putting that aside what we just saw was absolutely horrifying. it was the defamation of gaslighting. the president of the united states on a phone call. we have seen the summary, used the awesome power of our foreign policy to withhold resource to an ally that would fur
adam schiff had been criticized before but seemed to be ramped up. nancy pelosi thought there was not room for impeachment when she saw the rough transcript of his call. that was inaccurate. nancy pelosi said today that the phone call itself rises to the level of impeachable offense. she called it and undermining his oath of office and our constitution. i think speaker offices likely to dispute the president. what we heard is what the president's defense going to be. he did nothing wrong and...
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house intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. it's the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story we're watching is california in flames right now. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, college students as well. we'll go to california in a bit. we start with that breaking news on capitol hill right now. a key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. >> w
house intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. it's the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major...
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the president saying, i leave that to the lawyers and then taking aim at adam schiff saying schiff has been proven to be a liar, he's a stone-cold liar, that sort of reiterating some of the barbs against adam schiff. the bottom line as you and i know and reporting, there is a request for documents and the democrats have been clear in the house if they don't get them voluntarily, they will move to issue subpoenas. if the white house continues to block their requests, they will see that as evidence of obstruction. just getting our very first read out here, hallie, appears the president just as defiant as he was yesterday. >> and i understand, kristen, that the president has just wrapped up. he just finished speaking with reporters on the white house south lawn. he talked about mitch mcconnell's statement that happened. he talked about the vice president's remarks about president trump yesterday. just to bring our viewers in because you and i are familiar as white house correspondents how this goes down, but remember, folks at home, there's a team of reporters who is out on the south lawn
the president saying, i leave that to the lawyers and then taking aim at adam schiff saying schiff has been proven to be a liar, he's a stone-cold liar, that sort of reiterating some of the barbs against adam schiff. the bottom line as you and i know and reporting, there is a request for documents and the democrats have been clear in the house if they don't get them voluntarily, they will move to issue subpoenas. if the white house continues to block their requests, they will see that as...
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we now heard a warning from adam schiff. the white house is able to block or does say pompeo is going to block officials from justifying. what avenues are available to congress? >> same avenues that are available during the mueller investigation which is to hall people in hall -- haul people into court. it does seem some of these officials deciding on their own to comply. that will set the president. even if they are unable to get the state department officials, democrats will have enough once the ig fills in the blanks on this whistleblower's complaint and does so in front of a bipartisan showing even if it is behind closed doors, that's going to be compelling enough for them to proceed with this process. all of it will be rolled into an obstruction charge. they have the same tools unfortunately for democrats that they are trying to unveil during the mueller investigation which is to take people to court. >> if it is go ahead to take people to court. yamic yamiche, a certain warning does not result in anything or how many s
we now heard a warning from adam schiff. the white house is able to block or does say pompeo is going to block officials from justifying. what avenues are available to congress? >> same avenues that are available during the mueller investigation which is to hall people in hall -- haul people into court. it does seem some of these officials deciding on their own to comply. that will set the president. even if they are unable to get the state department officials, democrats will have enough...
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if the democrats have a case, adam schiff should release thursday's transcript. it allegedly establishes a quid pro quo. adam schiff released the transcript like president trump released the transcript of his call with president zelensky. and then we can see. is not it. >> i'll have michelle respond. when you talk about saudi arabia and others, it was not to the personal gain of the president. we're talking now not about using foreign governments for investigations. we're talking about directing an investigation that would directly be of political gain to the president. that's a total different ball game. >> i don't believe that. i just don't believe that. >> i'm not saying established. i'm saying the expects you use ready not what we're looking at here, michelle. there was nobody in the khashoggi situation that was accused of having political gain. >> what hugh hewitt and other defenders of the president are asking you to believe is that the president is independently terribly concerned about nept tisic corruption. there is no other case in the world in which he
if the democrats have a case, adam schiff should release thursday's transcript. it allegedly establishes a quid pro quo. adam schiff released the transcript like president trump released the transcript of his call with president zelensky. and then we can see. is not it. >> i'll have michelle respond. when you talk about saudi arabia and others, it was not to the personal gain of the president. we're talking now not about using foreign governments for investigations. we're talking about...
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house intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. it's the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major story we're watching is california in flames right now. mandatory evacuation orders are in place. 200,000 people have been told to get out so far including hospital patients, jail inmate, college students as well. we'll go to california in a bit. we start with that breaking news on capitol hill right now. a key witness has refused to show up to a scheduled deposition this morning and democrats are now preparing to hold it in contempt of congress. >> we move forward and we will obviously consider, as we inform the council his failure to appear as evide
house intelligence chair adam schiff acc obstruction. it's the latest in the ongoing impeachment saga after a key witness today acting on orders from the white house refused to be deposed. also president trump is about to speak in chicago this hour after teasing the potential release of footage of the takedown of the most wanted terrorist ps. but he's under fire this morning for are revealing classified details about the raid that killed isis leader baghdabu bak baghdadi and the other major...
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for adam schiff as conveyed to alex moe. he said the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee. at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance. he continues, the committee did not receive the complaint until the night before the acting director of national intelligence's opening hearing before the committee. more than three weeks after the legal deadline by which the committee should have received the complaint. so in that press conference we just saw, where the question was conveyed to president trump that adam schiff might have had advance notice of what the complaint the was about, the question was completely misrepresentd and it teed president trump up to make the claim that adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committee had some hand in writing it, which is completely false according to the reporting and according to the statement from the committee. hopefully that clears some of
for adam schiff as conveyed to alex moe. he said the whistle-blower contacted the committee for guidance on how to report possible wrongdoing within the jurisdiction of the intelligence committee. at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance. he continues, the committee did not receive the complaint until the night before the acting director of national intelligence's opening hearing before the committee. more than three weeks after the legal deadline by which the...
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>> well, i think adam schiff's taking the lead. you know, there's nothing in the constitution that requires the house judiciary committee to write the articles of impeachment. that's been the case. it was the case in nixon's impeachment resolutions. but here's what could happen. the intelligence committee is having these closed-door hearings. they have access to information, confidential information, classified information, that the rest of congress doesn't have access to. the judiciary committee members don't have access to. so i think it's going to fall on adam schiff and his committee to marshal that evidence, to collect it, and to present an article of impeachment based upon ukraine. but as glen said, i think there are other articles of impeachment. the emoluments is a gross example of that. and the connection between the two is important. the frameworks were very concerned about foreign governments having influence in our affairs. the common denominator between ukraine and emoluments is the foreign governments involvement. get
>> well, i think adam schiff's taking the lead. you know, there's nothing in the constitution that requires the house judiciary committee to write the articles of impeachment. that's been the case. it was the case in nixon's impeachment resolutions. but here's what could happen. the intelligence committee is having these closed-door hearings. they have access to information, confidential information, classified information, that the rest of congress doesn't have access to. the judiciary...
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>> not only that but i actually worry when the president targets somebody that adam schiff has gotten death threats. he puts people in danger, including potentially the whistle-blower who he certainly wants to disclose and disclaim. so it's -- on many fronts it is really dangerous and serious. ari, when you were going through it, it's not only trying to undercut -- >> wait, i will let you continue. just on the news of that reference you made, is that something you learned from congressman schiff or his staff themselves? >> i absolutely heard it from -- yes. not from adam directly but i know that is actually a fact, that he has received death threats. this isn't the first time when the president has targeted people, that that's the outcome of that. >> i ask you that because you know we're dealing with very serious matters. the congressman made reference to it as well. so take a listen to how he viewed the president's incitement of violence today. >> let's not makeness my take here. the president wants to make this all about the whistle-blower and suggest people that come forward with e
>> not only that but i actually worry when the president targets somebody that adam schiff has gotten death threats. he puts people in danger, including potentially the whistle-blower who he certainly wants to disclose and disclaim. so it's -- on many fronts it is really dangerous and serious. ari, when you were going through it, it's not only trying to undercut -- >> wait, i will let you continue. just on the news of that reference you made, is that something you learned from...
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you heard what adam schiff said. they're taking about rolling this into some sort of obstruction part of an impeachment process. who has the upper hand here, again, given what we've seen historically that these kinds of things, trying to get people to testify who don't want to testify, trying to get documents can go on and on and on in the courts. >> good morning, chris. believe me, i have seen examples of congressional overreach in the past when it comes to congress's oversight powers but i don't see that here. i think these requests appear to be reasonable. the problem, though, that congress has, as heidi pointed out, if it faces obstruction by the administration and the white house and chooses to pursue litigation, a remedy in the courts, to force the administration to cooperate, that will take too long, and so the alternative is to do exactly what appears to be in the works here, and that is simply chalk that obstruction up to obstruction and roll that into the impeachment process and simply assume the worst abou
you heard what adam schiff said. they're taking about rolling this into some sort of obstruction part of an impeachment process. who has the upper hand here, again, given what we've seen historically that these kinds of things, trying to get people to testify who don't want to testify, trying to get documents can go on and on and on in the courts. >> good morning, chris. believe me, i have seen examples of congressional overreach in the past when it comes to congress's oversight powers...
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today house speaker nancy pelosi and house intelligence chair adam schiff laid out their plan. >> in that telephone call the president undermined our national security because of his -- what he had done a few days earlier. >> we want to make it abundantly clear any effort by the secretary or anyone else to interfere with the congress' ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. >> here's the thing about adam schiff and nancy pelosi's constitutional position and their political position, it has nothing to do with donald trump and his base. they do not depend on him or his followers at all. there is nothing that donald trump could do to nancy pelosi or adam schiff or say about them, and it is driving the president crazy that he can't touch them. so today the president's day long melt down began as he clearly watched their press conference and live tweeted. he attempted to use his one genuine skill that has gotten him this far, which you dominate news coverage through sheer verbiage to deny the two facts
today house speaker nancy pelosi and house intelligence chair adam schiff laid out their plan. >> in that telephone call the president undermined our national security because of his -- what he had done a few days earlier. >> we want to make it abundantly clear any effort by the secretary or anyone else to interfere with the congress' ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. >> here's the...
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adam schiff doesn't want that information out there. he is holding up the transcript and he continues to have a bias against the president. >> i believe we will get to hear from the ambassador, but only when there is a fair from access. this is not a fair process. i can tell you we spent more time here, more time with this time than adam schiff did. he came out here to the press. he gave a benign thing and raced off to a fair process. when you have a press release drafted by democratic colleagues, picking out text messages, when the testimony from last week would have exonerated it, let's bring the ambassador in. >> do you have concerns about what we're talking about here, the president asking a foreign government if he claimed to investigate joe biden and the president saying last week that china should investigate joe biden. >> the president is doing his job. the president when you're talking about the hard earned tax dollars. >> we're going to monitor that conversation. they are saying that's what they want, what they deserve, can th
adam schiff doesn't want that information out there. he is holding up the transcript and he continues to have a bias against the president. >> i believe we will get to hear from the ambassador, but only when there is a fair from access. this is not a fair process. i can tell you we spent more time here, more time with this time than adam schiff did. he came out here to the press. he gave a benign thing and raced off to a fair process. when you have a press release drafted by democratic...
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they are attacking adam schiff and nancy pelosi on process. it's extraordinary pause if anything the intel committee under adam schiff has been extraordinary involved with the details following the letter of the law.tr the whistleblower according to the trump appointed inspector general, the trump appointed head of the intelligence community did everything right, followed the letter of the law. the only entity that's not is the white house and they're the ones complaining about process. the crimes have been committed and they're in public view. >> the president has been insulting and criticizing the whistleblower, leveling all sorts of claims along with his allies. are you worried about the whistleblower being protected through this process as the law requires?th >> my first concern is the safety of the whistleblower. the president using terms like treasonous and traitorous and you know what we do with traitors or what we used to do with them. i believe he's put this whistleblower at risk. that's most important. underneath that but as importan
they are attacking adam schiff and nancy pelosi on process. it's extraordinary pause if anything the intel committee under adam schiff has been extraordinary involved with the details following the letter of the law.tr the whistleblower according to the trump appointed inspector general, the trump appointed head of the intelligence community did everything right, followed the letter of the law. the only entity that's not is the white house and they're the ones complaining about process. the...
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schiff. >> as was adam schiff, until he took this step to extort a foreign government into a openi an investigation into one of his political opponents. we heard a lot today from the republicans about the process, as we've heard over and over again. that is going to be a more and more difficult argument for them to make as this goes forward, as phil rucker said, we're now about to turn to the point of this investigation where we will see publicga hearings, and the public will be engaged in a way they haven't so far. witnesses will come h forward a tell their story, and every american can judge whether they believe them or not. at some point republicans who continue to only attack on the process and not engage on the substance when those witnesses are telling a compelling story, do so at their own political peril. and i think that very serious problem the president faces as this moves forward. >> bothov parties, phil rucker, face that problem with traditionalfa hearings. the benghazi hearing was 11 hours andha it was a disaster, turned out to be a disaster for the republicans, except t
schiff. >> as was adam schiff, until he took this step to extort a foreign government into a openi an investigation into one of his political opponents. we heard a lot today from the republicans about the process, as we've heard over and over again. that is going to be a more and more difficult argument for them to make as this goes forward, as phil rucker said, we're now about to turn to the point of this investigation where we will see publicga hearings, and the public will be engaged...
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>> well, i think adam schiff is taking the lead. you know, there's nothing in the constitution that requires the house judiciariment to write the articles of impeachment. that's been the case, it was the case in nixon's impeachment resolutions, but here's what could happen. the intelligence committee is having these closed door hearings. they have access to information, confidential information, classified information, that the rest of congress doesn't have access to. the judiciary committee members don't have access to. so i think it is going to fall on adam schiff and his committee to marshal that evidence, to collect it, and present an article of impeachment, based on on ukraine. but as glenn said, i think there are other artof impeachment, the the emoluments is a gross example of that and the connection between the two is important. the framers were very concerned about foreign governments having influence in our affairs. the common denominator between ukraine and emoluments is the foreign government's involvement in getting dir
>> well, i think adam schiff is taking the lead. you know, there's nothing in the constitution that requires the house judiciariment to write the articles of impeachment. that's been the case, it was the case in nixon's impeachment resolutions, but here's what could happen. the intelligence committee is having these closed door hearings. they have access to information, confidential information, classified information, that the rest of congress doesn't have access to. the judiciary...
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adam schiff is the boy who cried wolf. i think it's lost its punch. even if they succeed in finding something, which they won't, but if they did, i don't think it's really going to swing the voters all that much. >> what do you say to that, lori, because we heard president trump for years talk about the l clintons and clintons, talking about it three years after the election. i don't know that argument that two years, i mean, look how long this president went on birtherism and then on hilla hillary-gate. >> i don't think the american public at all, i disagree with holly. i don't think the american public at all is starting to tune out. in fact, rev, i think that they're starting to lean in. they are definitely paying attention to what is going on. this is not just messaging by a particular political party. this is fact, this is unfortunately a poor time in america's history of what is happening with this administration. and again, the abuse of power that they continue to have. >> right. >> i don't think that it's fun to watch this -- it's not amagnitu
adam schiff is the boy who cried wolf. i think it's lost its punch. even if they succeed in finding something, which they won't, but if they did, i don't think it's really going to swing the voters all that much. >> what do you say to that, lori, because we heard president trump for years talk about the l clintons and clintons, talking about it three years after the election. i don't know that argument that two years, i mean, look how long this president went on birtherism and then on...
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adam schiff representative, congressman, made up what i said. >> all right. joining us now, national political reporter for "politico," alaina schneider, great to have you with us this morning. what could be the potential legal fallout from president trump's push to learn the identity of the whistleblower. he seems adamant that he is trying to find that out. >> what is clear there are a set of rules and guidelines and laws that protect whistle brothers that when they followed intelligence protocols, that their anonymity is protected that their protection against retribution, that's codified. what is unclear is how that might change if the president is the person himself, the president himself is the one who is seeking to unmask that whistleblower. and so the whistleblower advocates and lawyers, who have spoken on the record about this, have expressed a real concern that this might have a chilling effect, on other whistleblowers, but on top of that, it is sort of unclear how this might be read legally and certainly there has been criticism from democrats and f
adam schiff representative, congressman, made up what i said. >> all right. joining us now, national political reporter for "politico," alaina schneider, great to have you with us this morning. what could be the potential legal fallout from president trump's push to learn the identity of the whistleblower. he seems adamant that he is trying to find that out. >> what is clear there are a set of rules and guidelines and laws that protect whistle brothers that when they...
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i've watched adam schiff leak. he's a corrupt politician. he's a leaker like nobody's ever seen before. >> trump later tweeted that he would not be surprised if democrats impeached him over not disclosing the information to lawmakers, the lack of notice to congressional leaders marked a break with precedent while the president is not required to notify congressional leaders on both sides of the history it has been standard practice in recent history. >> during the announcement on sunday, president trump used descriptive language when describing baghdadi's death, claiming the isis leader was quote whimpering and likened him to a dog in his attempt to escape u.s. forces. however, those anecdotes are not being echoed by senior members of the died like a dog. he died like a and crying. and frankly, i think it's something that should be brought out. so that his followers and all of these young kids that want to leave various countries, including the united states, they should see how he died. he didn't die a hero. he died a coward. rying, whimper
i've watched adam schiff leak. he's a corrupt politician. he's a leaker like nobody's ever seen before. >> trump later tweeted that he would not be surprised if democrats impeached him over not disclosing the information to lawmakers, the lack of notice to congressional leaders marked a break with precedent while the president is not required to notify congressional leaders on both sides of the history it has been standard practice in recent history. >> during the announcement on...
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she'll be joined by adam schiff, the house intelligence chairman. his committee is running point on this ukraine investigation. the house speaker has talked a number of times about how important she thinks it is to bring the american public along as democrats try to build the case against president trump. that's in large part why the two of them are having this press briefs today even though congress is on recess. i suspect we'll mary the house speaker convey the tone she used when talking to the house caucus on sunday saying members should be non-partisan, in large part because of the question they're grappling with here, potentially removing a sitting president trump from office. donald trump will be the fourth person in the history of the republic to face an impeachment investigation. andrew johnson in the 1800s was impeached for policies at the end of the civil war, not convicted by the senate. everyone knows about bill clinton, not convicted by the senate. richard nixon resigned before being impeached. trz is the first to face the impeachment q
she'll be joined by adam schiff, the house intelligence chairman. his committee is running point on this ukraine investigation. the house speaker has talked a number of times about how important she thinks it is to bring the american public along as democrats try to build the case against president trump. that's in large part why the two of them are having this press briefs today even though congress is on recess. i suspect we'll mary the house speaker convey the tone she used when talking to...
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beyond that you have adam schiff. he says they will draw an adverse inference to any more stonewalling which is to suggest that they will assume that the underlying allegation is true. otherwise why would the trump administration be trying to cover it up? so even as the white house by punting some of these reports, democrats are making clear they don't see legal action anymore as a remedy for this. they are moving full steam ahead with this impeachment inquiry. >> thank you very much for that update, geoff. joining me now is barbara mcquaid. good to have you with us. what do you make of this development now that you've got those three committees of the house, the oversight, the intel and the foreign affairs committee also bringing the vice president, his documents alleging that perhaps a member of his staff might have been on the call? what does that say to you? >> well, the circle is getting larger of people who might have information. and as an investigator i was always very pleased to have more sources of informati
beyond that you have adam schiff. he says they will draw an adverse inference to any more stonewalling which is to suggest that they will assume that the underlying allegation is true. otherwise why would the trump administration be trying to cover it up? so even as the white house by punting some of these reports, democrats are making clear they don't see legal action anymore as a remedy for this. they are moving full steam ahead with this impeachment inquiry. >> thank you very much for...
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any moment now the chair of the house intel committee, adam schiff, expected to speak. so don't go anywhere. when you shop with wayfair, you spend less and get way more. so you can bring your vision to life and save in more ways than one. for small prices, you can build big dreams, spend less, get way more. shop everything home at wayfair.com that could allow hackers devices into your home.ys and like all doors, they're safer when locked. that's why you need xfinity xfi. with the xfi gateway,...
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i want to ask you a question about adam schiff. the chairman of the house intel committee learned about the whistleblower's complaint against president trump days before it was officially filed. according to the "new york times," setting a spokesman for adam schiff along with current and former officials, the cia officer, whistleblower, approached an intel committee aid with his concerns about the president only after first having a colleague relayed him to the cia's top lawyer. the times says the officer approached the aide after having been concerned about the initial investigations was unfolding. it goes on to say the house staff member following the committee's procedures suggested officer find a lawyer to advise and meet with an inspector general with whom he could file an official whistleblower complaint. so, mr. director, let me ask you about the way this was handled based on what you're reading in these media reports, based on what chairman schiff has said, was there any wrongdoing in the steps that were tieng get aken this
i want to ask you a question about adam schiff. the chairman of the house intel committee learned about the whistleblower's complaint against president trump days before it was officially filed. according to the "new york times," setting a spokesman for adam schiff along with current and former officials, the cia officer, whistleblower, approached an intel committee aid with his concerns about the president only after first having a colleague relayed him to the cia's top lawyer. the...
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even sean hannity on fox called mulvaney's statement idiotic and adam schiff, the chair of your committee, says things went from very, very bad to much, much worse. so what is your take? what do you think mulvaney's statement means for impeachment inquiry? >> everybody knows we've been spending days and hois and hours and hours, oftentimes without lunch, deposing witnesses. and i frankly couldn't help but
even sean hannity on fox called mulvaney's statement idiotic and adam schiff, the chair of your committee, says things went from very, very bad to much, much worse. so what is your take? what do you think mulvaney's statement means for impeachment inquiry? >> everybody knows we've been spending days and hois and hours and hours, oftentimes without lunch, deposing witnesses. and i frankly couldn't help but
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. >>> earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi and chairman adam schiff ratcheted up the pressure. they say any attempt to stop government employees from testifying would, one, be considered another article of obstruction and, two, a confirmation. >> we'll allow an adverse infrempbs to be drawn as to the underlying facts that if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations in the whistle-blower complaint, that will create an adverse inference that those allegations are, in fact, correct. >> there is a lot happening on this story today. mike pompeo in rome this morning admitted that he was on that ukraine call. andrea mitchell is with us and she has important context on that in just a moment. >>> a negotiating team from the state department is on capitol hill today. will they allow dip mats to testify? >>> and next hour the state department inspector general has scheduled an urgent briefing on the hill, but the subject is something we don't know at this time. there are so many questions, but our big question today is -- will the president's c
. >>> earlier today, house speaker nancy pelosi and chairman adam schiff ratcheted up the pressure. they say any attempt to stop government employees from testifying would, one, be considered another article of obstruction and, two, a confirmation. >> we'll allow an adverse infrempbs to be drawn as to the underlying facts that if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations in the whistle-blower complaint, that will create an adverse...
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for nancy pelosi and adam schiff using words like high crimes and treason, then calling for their immediate impeachment even though members of congress cannot be impeached. as well as a new screed against the sole republican critic in the senate mitt romney. joining me now kristin welker. former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence and a senior director in president obama's national security council. what is going on at the white house? >> reporter: this second whistleblower deepens the controversy for the president, for this administration. it deprives them of the argument that the allegations against them are based on hearsay. of course, we have the notes from the transcripts so people were able to see what president trump said to the president of ukraine, at least the notes of that phone call with their own eyes. but that is why you have president trump taking aim at the whistleblower, the press secretary stephanie grishom trying to dismiss the significance saying it's part of
for nancy pelosi and adam schiff using words like high crimes and treason, then calling for their immediate impeachment even though members of congress cannot be impeached. as well as a new screed against the sole republican critic in the senate mitt romney. joining me now kristin welker. former fbi assistant director for counter intelligence and a senior director in president obama's national security council. what is going on at the white house? >> reporter: this second whistleblower...
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there have been calls for adam schiff to be impeached, that is a loose use of the term impeachment. and jim jordan and the president's allies have been out there undermining the investigation. what is going on in congress about all of this? >> reporter: a lot of that is noise quite frankly. there is a lot of sound and fury around the edges of this while the investigative work continues. or at least the compiling of evidence. and i separate the two because as glenn alluded to, i think that there is a distinctive possibility one growing by the day that lot of the subpoenas sent to the administration will not be complied with. and democrats have made it clear that they are not interested in having a proceed tract theed fight in the courts. they would rather take whatever is not complied with and put it in another file that says this is obstruction and that that could indeed become another article of impeachment on top of whatever they come up with. remember, democrats feel like they have a pretty strong hand here. they have the memo of the phone call. they expect to get testimony from
there have been calls for adam schiff to be impeached, that is a loose use of the term impeachment. and jim jordan and the president's allies have been out there undermining the investigation. what is going on in congress about all of this? >> reporter: a lot of that is noise quite frankly. there is a lot of sound and fury around the edges of this while the investigative work continues. or at least the compiling of evidence. and i separate the two because as glenn alluded to, i think that...
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both the reporting and adam schiff's spokesperson made clear that at no time did adam schiff have advanced notice about the substance of the complaint. he had no idea what it was about until the night before, though hearing what the acting director of national intelligence which schiff and his spokesperson point out was three weeks late given the deadline by which that whistleblower complaint should have been conveyed to congress. this whole story, though, has given republicans a talking point, a fresh talking points to suggest that the whistleblower complaint was a political hack job. even though the act could director of intelligence said on the record definitively that the allegations are credible and in alignment with the phone call the white house put out detailing the interaction between president trump and his ukranian counterpart. >> in some ways it's a standards practice, attack the accuser. attack the accuser rather -- if the substance is not a comfortable debate, you go down this roads. it is -- this roads. it is a familiar political tactic. there's no doubt that adam schiff has
both the reporting and adam schiff's spokesperson made clear that at no time did adam schiff have advanced notice about the substance of the complaint. he had no idea what it was about until the night before, though hearing what the acting director of national intelligence which schiff and his spokesperson point out was three weeks late given the deadline by which that whistleblower complaint should have been conveyed to congress. this whole story, though, has given republicans a talking point,...
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but this is the new adam schiff strategy. >> your colleagues can cross examine him. your republican colleagues have been in the room. >> i don't have the questions and sneens you don't trust your republicans on these committees? >> i want to see the consequence of their work right. it's not -- they put out their opening statement we engage in cross-examination, you want to ask me about the opening, but i don't have the benefit of the cross-examination to be able to test the allegations made in the opening statement. and that is all by design. it is not an accident that you and i are having this interview on terms that are very favorable to the adam schiff theory of the case because when john ratcliffe asked questions that i think poke holes in the allegations that taylor made, we don't get the benefit of those. they weren't leaked and they weren't in front of the american people and that's the problem. >> i want to get to turkey and syria as i have said repeatedly. we'll turn to that. the democrats as congressman kildee said on the show, i know you didn't hear it, th
but this is the new adam schiff strategy. >> your colleagues can cross examine him. your republican colleagues have been in the room. >> i don't have the questions and sneens you don't trust your republicans on these committees? >> i want to see the consequence of their work right. it's not -- they put out their opening statement we engage in cross-examination, you want to ask me about the opening, but i don't have the benefit of the cross-examination to be able to test the...
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adam schiff took the brunt of it today. people who i have talked to around him feel that he's angry at the situation and does not see an obvious way out. >> i would continue down this path as jonathan lemire describes enraging donald trump with the confidence that he's run all of his plays. he doesn't have anything else. he's got rail against the media. he's got rail against schiff. he's got mike hall was perfect, let's try to dilude my 35% into thinking there's nothing wrong with asking a foreign leader for dirt on opponent. >> i was literally just talking to my colleague as i approached this camera. and what you and john both said is 100% right. surrogates are not along to defend him. and everybody around him, i mean, his staff is leaking. there's no white house press conferences. so there's no infrastructure around him. we had something today in playbook about how our republicans feel there is no strategy and the president is just kind of lashing out randomly. and we saw that again today. and meanwhile it's equally impor
adam schiff took the brunt of it today. people who i have talked to around him feel that he's angry at the situation and does not see an obvious way out. >> i would continue down this path as jonathan lemire describes enraging donald trump with the confidence that he's run all of his plays. he doesn't have anything else. he's got rail against the media. he's got rail against schiff. he's got mike hall was perfect, let's try to dilude my 35% into thinking there's nothing wrong with asking...
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schiff's approach here as well as the other oversight committee chairs is essentially look, if they want to obstruct, they obstruct. we're moving forward and we have
schiff's approach here as well as the other oversight committee chairs is essentially look, if they want to obstruct, they obstruct. we're moving forward and we have
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that to adam schiff. i spoke to people who used to work for the intel committee who tell me that that is pretty standard procedure. senators warner and burr also said that it is pretty standard for whistleblowers to go to the committees and ask how to proceed. walk me through your reporting. >> well, we've been looking at what the whistleblower did before he filed the whistleblower complaint. and you are exactly right, this is standard procedure. the whistleblower first went to the cia general counsel and gave a vague warning. and that prompted an investigation by the cia and the white house, but that was the very people that the whistleblower thought should be investigated. and so the whistleblower then went to the house intelligence committee. as you said, a set procedure. they did not take the information, they did not take the classified information, they instead referred the whistleblower, future whistleblower, to the inspector general. and they also suggested getting legal counsel. that is because t
that to adam schiff. i spoke to people who used to work for the intel committee who tell me that that is pretty standard procedure. senators warner and burr also said that it is pretty standard for whistleblowers to go to the committees and ask how to proceed. walk me through your reporting. >> well, we've been looking at what the whistleblower did before he filed the whistleblower complaint. and you are exactly right, this is standard procedure. the whistleblower first went to the cia...
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impeach nancy pelosi, impeach adam schiff. this is a rhetorical strategy the president has employed for years and it's really throwing the charges that he's facing back at people who are throwing the charges at him. >> so last night the president said that speaker pelosi is skipping the floor impeachment vote because she can't get the votes that she needs. what is the latest on the possibility of that happening? is there pressure on the speaker to take this to a floor vote? >> well, i think there is certainly a lot of pressure because i think the idea of a floor vote is what conservatives and president trump are basically saying to delegitimize this process saying it's not a legitimate process because there hasn't been a vote. so i think there definitely is some pressure on that. however, i think nancy pelosi wants to move at a very slow and steady pace with the impeachment inquiry. remember, she has very much moved at this very cautious pace. she doesn't want to rush into anything. she knows there are certainly political risk
impeach nancy pelosi, impeach adam schiff. this is a rhetorical strategy the president has employed for years and it's really throwing the charges that he's facing back at people who are throwing the charges at him. >> so last night the president said that speaker pelosi is skipping the floor impeachment vote because she can't get the votes that she needs. what is the latest on the possibility of that happening? is there pressure on the speaker to take this to a floor vote? >> well,...
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. >> when adam schiff made it up, you talk about pinocchio, that should get ten pinocchios. >> adam schiff. we don't call him shifty schiff for nothing. >> adam schiff made up my words. adam schiff representative, congressman, made up what i said. >> the impeachment inquiry turning to vice president mike pence. a new take on which key player is the most vulnerable. >>> plus the andrew yang surge. why his name is coming up regarding the november debate. >>> and new this morning, there is new reporting of what could become a major piece of evidence in the impeachment inquiry. "the new york times" reporting that a second intelligence official is considering whether to file a whistle-blower complaint about the president seeking foreign help from ukraine against his political opponent, joe biden. the "times" reports the second official has more direct information about the events detailed in the first whistle-blower complaint. and that the second official is among those interviewed by the intelligence community inspector general to corroborate the allegations of the original whistle-blower. >>>
. >> when adam schiff made it up, you talk about pinocchio, that should get ten pinocchios. >> adam schiff. we don't call him shifty schiff for nothing. >> adam schiff made up my words. adam schiff representative, congressman, made up what i said. >> the impeachment inquiry turning to vice president mike pence. a new take on which key player is the most vulnerable. >>> plus the andrew yang surge. why his name is coming up regarding the november debate....
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so instead they're doing this sideshow going after adam schiff. i think it's ridiculous and i hope the american people see through it. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank you very much. mr. bennett, let me begin with you. as someone bhoo represented the president in a personal capacity during an impeachment event, how bad do the facts look for this president? >> i think they look very bad. i think on the obstruction, i mean you can be impeached for obstructing justice and obstructing a legitimate inquiry by congress. so i think the president himself has established the grounds for a charge of impeachment. >> walter, you worked at olc and you've been inside the gu government as it wrestled with the questions what is the law and can we follow it? >> in multiple instances it appears people around this scheme refer to the drug deal being cooked up by mulvaney and sondland and others who wanted to refer this to the lawyer and folks in the dod who did some legal analysis and found up holding the payments was unlawful, there are red flags going off all
so instead they're doing this sideshow going after adam schiff. i think it's ridiculous and i hope the american people see through it. >> congressman joaquin castro, thank you very much. mr. bennett, let me begin with you. as someone bhoo represented the president in a personal capacity during an impeachment event, how bad do the facts look for this president? >> i think they look very bad. i think on the obstruction, i mean you can be impeached for obstructing justice and...
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the republicans who i talked to and they say adam schiff is not ken star and we don't have a special prosecutor in this case. the rules of engagement are similar. you plug in different actors in this case where there could be multiple ken star or maybe it is not adam schiff. it is hikeghly likely. the president's counsel at that point when this process goes into judiciary it will have its own open hearings. the president's counsel at that point will have a lot of rights including to call witnesses and to push back and question the witnesses and that's what the democrats say is a fair process. under the constitution, the house's role is really to draw up these charges, it is not to hold the trial. it is the senate's job to hold a trial. we'll see these closed hearings dragging out longer and open hearings pushing possibly past the democrats' self imposed date, of thanksgiving. >> have you been following those fires this morning? >> extraordinary. they continue to burn out of control. one of the fires is dangerously close to the ronald reagan's library. winds are making these flames wo
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tonight three chairs of the committees involved, adam schiff, elliott ingles, elijah cummings released a statement. today the state department inspector general provided an unclassified briefing and documents to the house and senate. it is regarding the whistle-blower of the president's call in which he pressed the ukrainian president to smear president trump's domestic political rival. and briefing and documents raise troubling questions about apparent answers inside and outside the trump administration to target specific officials. and the letter went -- the statement by the chairman went on to say that it appears as if this document may have been something that was provided by, as they use the phrase, the president's agent rudy giuliani. now, they don't say that in so many words, but sticking rudy giuliani's name in that document at that point was clearly done for a very, very specific reason. and tonight we now discover that the chairman's mention of rudy giuliani might have been because they suspected he had a hand in this. rudy giuliani confessed to cnn tonight telling cnn the do
tonight three chairs of the committees involved, adam schiff, elliott ingles, elijah cummings released a statement. today the state department inspector general provided an unclassified briefing and documents to the house and senate. it is regarding the whistle-blower of the president's call in which he pressed the ukrainian president to smear president trump's domestic political rival. and briefing and documents raise troubling questions about apparent answers inside and outside the trump...
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is running a kangaroo court, and they are very upset about the way adam schiff in particular has run this inquiry so far. they say he hasn't been fair. he's only released portions of kurt volker's text messages, hasn't released the whole transcript that was a big beef this morning. well, one little wrinkle, and a gop lawmaker pointed me to this. an ethics complaint has been filed against adam schiff by an outside republican leaning group, the tea party group of america against adam schiff saying that he essentially has put forward misleading statements about his contacts with the whistleblower. they list a whole host of issues. the reason this is important, this republican lawmaker said is because back in 2017, democrats were saying the same thing essentially about then house intel chairman devin nunes and his contacts with the white house. and the only reason really that nunes stepped aside and recused himself as head of the russian investigation into election interference is because of an ethics complaint that he was dealing with in the house. so that's why this republican lawmaker
is running a kangaroo court, and they are very upset about the way adam schiff in particular has run this inquiry so far. they say he hasn't been fair. he's only released portions of kurt volker's text messages, hasn't released the whole transcript that was a big beef this morning. well, one little wrinkle, and a gop lawmaker pointed me to this. an ethics complaint has been filed against adam schiff by an outside republican leaning group, the tea party group of america against adam schiff...
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. >> i heard adam schiff got four pinocchios. that's good. he should have gotten them 2 1/2 years ago. that's a very nice question. let me shake your hand. that's a very nice question. almost surprised. i figured that was a trick question. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> we'll be issuing a letter. as everybody knows we've been treated very unfairly, very differently from anybody else, if you go over not only history, you go over any aspect of life, you'll see how unfairly we've been treated. we've done a fantastic job. everything to me is about corruption. we want to figure out what happened with 2016. as you know there's a lot of work going on with that. i don't care about biden's campaign, but i do care about corruption. his campaign, that's up to him. politics that's up to them. i don't care about politics. politics, as i think i made clear, and yesterday somebody asked me a question and i gave an answer. but always in the form of corruption. what i want to do and i think i have an obligation to do and probably a duty to do, cor
. >> i heard adam schiff got four pinocchios. that's good. he should have gotten them 2 1/2 years ago. that's a very nice question. let me shake your hand. that's a very nice question. almost surprised. i figured that was a trick question. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> we'll be issuing a letter. as everybody knows we've been treated very unfairly, very differently from anybody else, if you go over not only history, you go over any aspect of life, you'll see how unfairly we've...
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a guy the president doesn't really like, adam schiff of cali
a guy the president doesn't really like, adam schiff of cali
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the president threatening adam schiff with treason. and i'm glad adam kissinger, an illinois republican actually spoke up. >> so why, congressman, does so few of them speak out in public? why was congressman kissinger the outlier? >> because the president so dan dudley is still popular in their districts and they believe that speaking out against this president and the president tweeting something out could cost them their seats. i mean look at justin amash, the day he came out for the impeachment inquiry the next day his numbers were under water in a republican primary in his own district. >> i loved you summed it up in one sentence. there's also a second sentence. i loved when you said in your tweets this impeachment inquiry is about our national protection. if democrats could keenly say we're protecting our constitution, protecting our national security, it's not even about him, it's what we're doing for us. >> that's a great point. this is about making sure that no president of the united states can look at our military aid or our
the president threatening adam schiff with treason. and i'm glad adam kissinger, an illinois republican actually spoke up. >> so why, congressman, does so few of them speak out in public? why was congressman kissinger the outlier? >> because the president so dan dudley is still popular in their districts and they believe that speaking out against this president and the president tweeting something out could cost them their seats. i mean look at justin amash, the day he came out for...
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you know, i think if that goes along the way of nancy pelosi and adam schiff and the house democrats, then things like the letter that we saw last night from the white house are going to really have to go by the wayside. and that's where the fight escalates next. i think more than just the firing off of subpoenas is going to have to be some sort of court action to enforce them. >> let's talk, niels, about some of the new details we're learning about the whistle-blower memo and this memo that the white house official who had taken a listen to this phone call was, quote, visibly shaken by what had transpired. are we going to see democrats changing tactics in light of this new information which regards the impeachment push? >> i think the careful nature of what the house democrats are actually pursuing. and, frankly, the relatively narrow scope that chairman schiff and the other chairmen involved seem to be taking is probably likely to continue. you know, what i am curious about is whether or not there are other whistle-blowers who may have been thwarted from going through the normal cha
you know, i think if that goes along the way of nancy pelosi and adam schiff and the house democrats, then things like the letter that we saw last night from the white house are going to really have to go by the wayside. and that's where the fight escalates next. i think more than just the firing off of subpoenas is going to have to be some sort of court action to enforce them. >> let's talk, niels, about some of the new details we're learning about the whistle-blower memo and this memo...
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to be clear, adam schiff did portend to paraphrase the president and did not accurately quote him. he was trying to be rhetorical. he was asked about this and didn't really answer what his motivations were for that. he was maybe attempting to be dramatic. this is atmospherics. perhaps the more significant development is the letter from mike pompeo, the secretary of state, writing to the congressional democrats strong indicating he will not have his state department employees comply with those requests to be deposed by the house democrats, in this case the foreign affairs committee. he doesn't come outright and say never. but he says they don't have enough time to produce these documents, they want counsel present and there are a lot of other concerns the state department has with these five individuals appearing before a congressional committee. ultimately he says there's no reason or no authority to compel state department officials to be deposed. you can potentially call people as witnesses, but actually deposing them privately, pompeo is questioning that authority. that seems to
to be clear, adam schiff did portend to paraphrase the president and did not accurately quote him. he was trying to be rhetorical. he was asked about this and didn't really answer what his motivations were for that. he was maybe attempting to be dramatic. this is atmospherics. perhaps the more significant development is the letter from mike pompeo, the secretary of state, writing to the congressional democrats strong indicating he will not have his state department employees comply with those...
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>> i have 100% confidence in chairman adam schiff. i think he's a good man. he's enormously careful and is trying every way he knows how to be thorough and fair. and it's come under a lot of abuse. almost all of it politically motivated. the rhetoric of the president has been outrageous and irresponsib irresponsible. i'd follow adam schiff into any battle and i'm happy to be in the fox hole with him. i think he's going to come out looking pretty good. by the way, none of us is perfect. and none of us is going to get everything right. he's a good man trying to do the right thing. >> how are you going to combat the republicans on this? if the house republicans are essentially trying to delegitimatize the entire thing, they're not accepting the premise -- if they're not going to accept the premise was the conduct troubling? we can debate about whether it's impeachab impeachable. we're not even agrees ing on th set of facts. how do you go about that? >> i've done this job long enough, unfortunately, to be skeptical about, you know, the guys on the other side doin
>> i have 100% confidence in chairman adam schiff. i think he's a good man. he's enormously careful and is trying every way he knows how to be thorough and fair. and it's come under a lot of abuse. almost all of it politically motivated. the rhetoric of the president has been outrageous and irresponsib irresponsible. i'd follow adam schiff into any battle and i'm happy to be in the fox hole with him. i think he's going to come out looking pretty good. by the way, none of us is perfect....
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even sean hannity on fox called mulvaney's statement idiotic and adam schiff, the chair of your committee, says things went from very, very bad to much, much worse. so what is your take? what do you think mulvaney's statement means for impeachment inquiry? >> everybody knows we've been spending days and hois and hours and hours, oftentimes without lunch, deposing witnesses. and i frankly couldn't help but come away from yesterday's development with the thought that maybe we just need to shove a few of these guys out in public and stick a microphone in front of their face and they'll do the work for us. this is the same old pattern of the trump administration, deny, deny, and when that doesn't hold up, then say we did it but it's okay in an attempt to normalize it. okay, the other thing that is important to reinforce, that geoff mentioned, and i think we can't say this often enough, the quid pro quo isn't necessary for there to have been a crime committed. the very solicitation, very act of solicitation of president zelensky to involve himself in the 2020 presidential election on behalf of
even sean hannity on fox called mulvaney's statement idiotic and adam schiff, the chair of your committee, says things went from very, very bad to much, much worse. so what is your take? what do you think mulvaney's statement means for impeachment inquiry? >> everybody knows we've been spending days and hois and hours and hours, oftentimes without lunch, deposing witnesses. and i frankly couldn't help but come away from yesterday's development with the thought that maybe we just need to...