come to adam schiff before he had an attorney? why did adam schiff go to the american public and start this nightmare over the idea that the administration would withhold the whistleblower from coming before the committee and he would fight hard to make that happen? the only person withholding the whistle bler from coming forward is adam schiff. this is a man who didn't even take the same rules that has been allotted to anybody else in the same position. he rewrote the rules so only he can pick who comes before the committee. he we re-wrote the rues for how the committee works, that he'd get the first 45 minutes. he has tried to design everything he can to get an outcome he kesires. they lack oblem is evidence and this is one more example of it. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> those comments from house republican leaders on today's intelligence committee vote which sen

did adam schiff break the law? >> i don't necessarily think he broke the law although there is a very serious legal question as to whether or not he had authority to do what he did. undoubtedly i think if he did have authority to do this he dramatically abused his power. liz: the abuse of power is this, congress is supposed to be making laws, they have to have a legislative purpose according to supreme court to do what they do. and we don't see what the law is in the purpose and exposing people's phone record. critics say in a free society this must be shut down. of lo phone logs of devin nunes, rudy giuliani, john solomon, and the justification from california democrat saint eric swalwell is saying basically defending out of shift that if you're going to talk to criminal we cannot protect you. how does he even know anybody's a criminal. that's eric swalwell saying that. >> he does not. i think ranking member devin nunes, there's nothing that suggests anything improper at all, having looked at call records before,

adam schiff once again had a closed meeting once again. congress looks divided, there is something that the speaker has said just this year that i think united's the entire nation. what she said, i think almost everybody agrees with. impeachment is so divisive that unless there is something so , overwhelming and bipartisan, i do not think we should go down the path because it divides the country. i imagine most everyone believes impeachment is divisive, but if we were to do it it would have to be overwhelming, compelling and bipartisan. three criteria to move what will happen this week. issues she laid have failed. there is nothing compelling, nothing overwhelming and the only bipartisan vote we have had is not to move forward with an impeachment inquiry, but that has not stopped them. in a venue that we cannot go to that is created solely for the intel committee. , theork is so sensitive intel committee has now been changed to the impeachment committee. watched you today i asked him a question on whether we should move forward on impeachm

so isn't this just adam schiff doubling down on his own lies? >> adam schiff has been caught. this man has to excuse for what he did to private citizens in the intelligence committee. the truth is very simple. donald trump only committed one crime and one crime alone. he defeated hillary clinton. and adam schiff will do whatever he can to punish donald trump. but he chose the wrong president. it is adam schiff who is in legal jeopardy for all his illegal activities and contravention of the u.s. constitution. and that's why they ebb lost the independent. in october the independent were slightly in favor of impeachment. in december they are against it. what happened? oh, yes, the impeachment hearings. the democrats launched a -- a boomerang and it will take their heads off. gregg: adam schiff should be banished from congress. devastating fires burning across australia tonight. they follow weeks of drought, extreme heat, strong winds. the flames threatening australia's most populated areas. hundreds of homes have been destroyed with 300 million acres of bushland. john durham may

this is the words of adam schiff. but you can wait, you can fight battles, you can try to get mick mulvaney and secretary pompeo and others to testify. but they are not choosing to do that. >> i think that's one of the most mystifying parts of all of this, especially with investor john bolton. they didn't even subpoena him had he would be possibly the most important witness and all of this. adam schiff said he did not want to get into a game of jump rope with him but there are clear issues of privilege between what a national security advisor says to a president and said the white house. it's the kind of thing that if the house is going to subpoena the national security advisor, it's probably going to go to court and a judge will have to decide and the house didn't even try. >> bret: i have heard, and this may be recent, but it is interesting to see adam schiff continue to bring up mick mulvaney for them to play during the hearing a video tape of mick mulvaney at the press conference with the acting white house chief

i would suspect adam schiff gets called. i want to know how it is that adam schiff had a staff member who allegedly used to work at the nsc with the alleged whistleblower. and within days he manages to get the skinny on this report that was coming down the pipeline. and we know that adam schiff lied on national television telling the world that he and his team had nothing do, no contact with the whistleblower. david, it turns out they did. >> adam schiff is a coward. we know this as a fact because he's not even testifying on monday. before the judiciary committee on the intelligence report. if he understood the importance and he understood all -- he does understand all of what he has done, the mccarthyite tactics that he has been using during this investigation to undermine this president, that's the reason he doesn't want to sit there to answer questions. we'll have our day in the senate. maybe it is, maybe it's not. i want the democrat congressional members in the trump districts to remember next november their vote for im

adam schiff made up our conversation with the president of ukraine. if he didn't do that in the halls of congress, he would be thrown into jail! but he did it in the halls of congress, and he's given immunity. this is a person, he's a liar. >> laura: "the ingraham angle"'s impeachment article three: invasion of privacy. now, without a warrant, adam schiff obtained the phone records of americans, including the president's personal attorney and congressman devin nunes. >> they published the phone records of the president's personal lawyer, the phone records of a member of the press, and thes phone records of the chairman intelligent committee congressman nunes. to impeach the president 11 months before an election. >> be careful, you are under oath. >> i know i am under oath, sir. >> laura: "i know i am under oath, sir." we will talk with congressman nunes about this in a few moments. think about it. schiff's entire investigation was about how the president supposedly used his position of power to dig up dirt on a political opponent. but that is precise

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adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he's a very sick man, and he lies. >> as i said we're going to have a psychiatrist actually react to that later in the hour. but what did you feel when you heard that today? >> well, you know, he gets more and more untethered over time. and, you know, i certainly have the same impression that you're likely to hear from the professional who comes-on our show which is this a president who's done nothing but project onto others his own lack of morality. that's unfortunately not a unique character trait or path ae ology to this president. we've seen it exhibited in some of the members of congress. >> you, of course, we've seen you shrug off these kinds of comments by the president in the past. but it's comments like that about some of the witnesses in this case that actually found their way into your report. and you suggests that includes witness intimidation by the president. >> yes. and that's part of a long pattern which goes back to the mueller investigation in which he was ca

that would be adam schiff, their leader. the report is chock-full of nothing but conspiracy theories, left-wing opinions, conjecture, hearsay witnesses, complaints about f donald trump's foreign policy by people who think they are more important than a duly-elected president, and a whole lot of outright lies. and, yeah, two quotes from george washington and alexander hamilton. they are even dragging them through the mud. this is not a serious document. in fact, the only clear piece of relevant, clear, hard evidence is testimony from their one direct witness. that guy right there, ambassador gordon sondland. according to the report, quote, i am reading, "on september 9th, sondland claimed the president answered an open question about what he wanted from ukraine with aned immediate denial. i want nothing. no quid pro quo. "uh, that is the only person under the federal rules of evidence, not the hearsay witnesses or opinion witnesses, that is the only guy that could be a real witness in a real court of law. the others, inadmiss

adam schiff. maria: so in terms of the fisa abuse, we're going to get the report tomorrow. >> right. maria: michael horowitz testifies in front of your committee on wednesday. >> yes. maria: will we see there was exculpatory evidence held back from the fisa court in order to get a warrant to spy on carter page? >> we'll soon see. there's a pattern of where they've manipulated the evidence to get a warrant. they ignored strong signals that christopher steele, the author of the dossier, was biased against trump. they withheld information from the court about how the dossier was created. they never informed the court that it was paid for by the democratic party and christopher steele hated trump's guts. i'm looking for evidence of whether or not they manipulated the facts to get the warrant. and as to the counterintelligence investigation, why didn't they tell president trump that they suspected carter page of working with the russians? and if they didn't tell him, there's a reason. counterintelligen

i do not know what to make of adam schiff. unless what you see is precisely what you get. he is without conscience. >> sometime ago he wrote a report, the mainstream media peddled it, the democrats. it and today we now know the inspector general has given it a failing grade. adam schiff told us there was no fisa abuse and told all the evidence was presented to the court and he said the dirty dossier, the political opposition research was not the central piece of evidence allowing our government on the trump campaign, all of those things are proven lies in a basic question, why would the american people believe a single thing adam schiff says going forward when he has a demonstrated history and getting caught lying which almost never happens about way of washington. lou: your exactly right very seldom have we seen documented evidence of demonstrating the sitting congressman is a liar. and he's 242. whereto we go from here. first of all i want to stipulate, this is an impeachment that will go nowhere if indeed it moves to a vote, it's a sad tragic farce. how do you work with

i want to see adam schiff's call logs. i want to see how many times he and members of his staff coordinated with the whistleblower and trump-hating lawyers and everyone trying to create a frenzy for a coup whe when we should be working on behalf of the interests of the american people. >> sean: well said both of you. thanks for what you do. we will be watching the talk show tomorrow. thank you both. house democrats now engaged in what is only a grand gross political stunt. not caring one bit about you, we the american people. all while president trump, what is he doing? he is out conducting work on behalf of we the people abroad that includes standing up to world leaders like he promised and holding our allies accountable like he promised to do their fair share. take loongeght. >> we have a tremendous amount of captured isis fighters over in syria. and they are all under lock and key. but many of them -- many from france, many germany many from u.k. mostly from europe some of the countries are agreeing. i have not spoken t

from adam schiff. i think he's a maniac. i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious. i think he's a very sick man and he lies. adam schiff made up my conversation with the president of ukraine. one of the reasons people keep talking about it is that's what they saw. we have a beautiful three or four-page transcription. on the other page, a two-page transcription of the conversation. a lot of people didn't read that. a friend of mine, a great friend of mine called and said, gee, i didn't like what was said. i said, where did you see it? no, i didn't read it. i heard adam schiff give it. i said that's not what was said. i sent him a copy of what was said. he said this isn't what he said. this guy is sick. he made up the conversation. he lied. if he didn't do that in the halls of congress, he'd be thrown in jail. he did it in the halls of congress, he's given immunity. this is a sick person. he's a liar. by the way, nancy pelosi kn

this as adam schiff undermines his own credibility yet again. adam schiff refuting to say he was wrong about fbi fisa court abuses. now schiff is trying to claim he didn't know about it. watch this. >> i'm certainly willing to admit that the inspector general found serious abuses of fisa that i was unaware of. had i known of them, chris, i would have called out the fbi at the same time, but i think it is only fair to judge what we knew at the time, not what would be revealed two years later. liz: let's bring in former fbi deputy assistant director, danny coulson. glen greenwald says adam schiff is pathological liar, he is pathologically dishonest. that is the quote. is he believable, that devin nunes last year, called reckless false, nunes describing in his memo that the exact same abuses the doj watchdog is now finding? >> it is not believable. first of all, when a member of your committee, if you're from the other party or not, brings you information, you should act on that information. remember the house intelligence committee has more access

and also they suggested somehow maybe adam schiff should be a witness to this. you heard adam schiff in his press conference say members of congress were complicit. not enough information at this point, i imagine he was talking about nunes. as you point out, he shows up all through this talking to giuliani, talking to lev parnas. do they wait for more information? something else that schiff said there was that there is this discussion about whether or not they wait for every fact. right? every witness to come forward. obviously, some witnesses, a lot of witnesses, from this without, is this matter urgent enough to just meev forward? and schiff feels it's urgent enough they don't necessarily have to wait on every fact. >> a risk what they're doing. worth noting. >> a risk to democrats? >> in terms of not waiting. there's clearly information they're not going to have. i mentioned before. they made their piece before they won't probably have it. a risk to rushing ahead and not following what has traditionally been a schedule for how you handle this kind of thing. i

i'm happy to introduce the chairman of the intelligence committee, adam schiff. the president of the united states has been impeached. for now, it's the third time in history. the president of the united states should be tried in the question is now whether senator mcconnell will allow a fair trial in the senate. it's whether the majority leader will allow a trial that involves witnesses and testimony and documents, a trial that should be fair to the president, yes, but should be fair also to the american people. the american people want to hear from people like john bolton, the american people want to hear from people like mick mulvaney. the american people want to see within those documents that the president has been hiding at the state department in the office of management and budget, in the white house itself. we have done our duty here in the house. we have upheld the constitution. we have done as the framers would have us do when a president abuses his office and obstructs a coequal branch of government. the question now is will the senate uphold its duty

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it is indictment that the things that adam schiff was saying. it was an indictment of jim comey's leadership at the fbi. the biggest takeaway out there, maria, what the inspector general's findings clearly delineate, even if you concede, and i don't, even if you concede there was a predicate to start this, there was no predicate to continue a counterintelligence investigation against the president of the united states. they had to do it by making those false representations to the fisa court. maria: yeah. we'll speak to devin nunez shortly of course. you referred to the nunes memo back in 2018, february of 18, where he wrote out all of the misconduct that took place by that cabal of people. then schiff came out with that correcting the record memo which we know now was wrong, just flat-out wrong. you mentioned some of the wrongdoing. one of them we know from the michael horowitz report was altering of a document by a fbi lawyer. tell me about that. where are you expect accountability, congressman? >> well, as the inspector general's findings out

i would suspect adam schiff gets called. i want to know how it is that adam schiff had a staff member who allegedly used to work at the nsc with the alleged whistleblower. and within days he manages to get the skinny on this report that was coming down the pipeline. and we know that adam schiff lied on national television telling the world that he and his team had nothing do, no contact with the whistleblower. david, it turns out they did. >> adam schiff is a coward. we know this as a fact because he's not even testifying on monday. before the judiciary committee on the intelligence report. if he understood the importance and he understood all -- he does understand all of what he has done, the mccarthyite tactics that he has been using during this investigation to undermine this president, that's the reason he doesn't want to sit there to answer questions. we'll have our day in the senate. maybe it is, maybe it's not. i want the democrat congressional members in the trump districts to remember next november their vote for im

think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obkrs. i think he's a very sick man and he lies. >> joining the discussion a former assistant clinical professor of psychotree. a contributor to the best selling book "the dangerous case of donald trump." doctor, there he is today saying i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. he grew up with a complex for lots of reasons that are obvious. i think he's a very sick man and he lieus. what's your reaction to donald trump saying that about adam schiff? >> well, you-representative schiff on earlier and i think he got it right. he said this is a projection. he tells other people that they are what he is. it's a common enough mechanism in early childhood. and it's -- but as an adult using it all the time, it's what we would call primitive. if donald trump were capable off giving a reasonable discussion of something he didn't agree with, he would make some sort of logical case but he's unable to do it. he runs a simple prog

chair of the oversight committee and of course, adam schiff, the chair of the intelligence committee. just want to say before yielding to the chairman that i could not be prouder or more inspired than by the moral courage of the house democrats. i never asked one of them how they were going to vote, we saw well, you saw the public statements that some of the made. we saw the results when everyone else did. some statements on the floor and about being very true to the vision of our founders. and so, i view this day, this toe as something that we did honor the vision of our founders, to establish a .epublic sacrifice of our men and women in uniform, to defend our democracy and that republic and the aspirations of our children that they will always live in a democracy and that we have tried to do everything we can to make sure that that is their reality. to the honored to yield distinguished chair of the judiciary committee, jerry nadler. nadler: the framers preserved the power of impeachment for the greatest offenses against our constitution, against our liberty and against our democrat

when you look at adam schiff who gets the records of devin nunes, he should've been put on new nurse in the telephone company should appoint somebody on notice and an awareness and lindsey graham says in the senate, adam schiff, this guy is always lying but that was getting the telephone logs, what were they going to tell him, they were going to tell a conversation they weren't wiretapped. but now lindsey graham says i'm not going to ask for anybody's record. part of america, that he is talking about that once their pound of flesh because they feel like they have been victimized over and over and we play by the markets of rules. >> we said so many times the republicans are too nice. can you imagine if the republicans releasing phone records of the member of press and their colleagues to devin nunes, it would be outraged from every other major media outlet in the country. but not when it's a conservative. we still have a formal pending for andy mccabe -- and we not have had any judge. this is why middle america is outraged because there's two different sets of rules, one if your trump

then adam -- it was factual. then adam schiff gets to do his thing. but did they give you any indication of what's coming next? >> jerry nadler is going start phase two of the circus. jerry nadler has been in the witness protection program for several months after he botched the mueller probe. supposedly we'll talk about the constitutionality of impeachment. and look, during the nixon impeachment hearings you had an actual breakin. you knew what the crime was. during clinton's impeachment you knew he lied to a grand jury. in the last two weeks we were able to expose not only did they not have a quid pro quo, they had to change to it bribery until john ratcliffe pointed out the only person accused of bribery in adam schiff's star chamber in the basement of the capitol was joe and hunter biden. judge jeanine: apparently there was a guy named mark sandy who worked in the office of management and budget. he said the hold-up of the money which was released september 11, he said that hold-up had to do with the contributions by other countries. we have some

he wants to call a bunch of witnesses including adam schiff. do you think it would be a smart thing to call adam schiff to testify in front of the senate? do you have any evidence at your fingertips that the president has perhaps abused his office? >> well, yes, i do. but i'm no more a fact witness than you are. perhaps they should add you to the witness list. >> stephen: i would be honored. ( cheers and applause ) ready for my closeup. >> and some of the republican members have echoed the president's talk about well, we should get adam schiff to testify. it just goes to show, there is no bottom to the degree to which some of my colleagues will prostrate themselves to please the president. >> stephen: what happens when the camera's off? do they ever say, look, we know this is a huge problem but we just can't say that out loud? is there any of that going on backstage? >> there is. >> stephen: so what do you say to those people? >> well, i'll have to say -- >> stephen: do you always get this animated and angry? ( laughter ) >> i have to tell you,

we should have had adam schiff here. we didn't get that opportunity. what i said in my closing is , we we are worried about are eroding the trust of people in our institutions. the people there are deeply concerned. they're not trusting the congress, the system of justice, they certainly don't trust this impeachment. we set a very dangerous precedent with this. you said at the end of the hearing you don't know what is next, what the course of action will be. would you encourage intelligence committee members on your side --that was the inclination of what nadler said they would have some sort of hearing? you bring a great question. is --here right now, there is a myth coming out. nobody knows what is going on. we are hearing there will be a judiciary presentation. we hear there is going to be an intel presentation. when adam schiff got in front of the mic and said i'm not testifying. if he's comparing himself to ken ther, why would he not be one to come testify instead of sending a staffer who is getting airtime to do that? the chairman would not commi

does adam schiff want to testify? >> bill: i would doubt it. >> he should. he is a fact witness. >> bill: the letter says this, given no information regarding your plans, set arbitrary deadlines and demanded a response to create the false appearance of providing the president some rude meant tree process. also in the letter he leaves open the possibility to participate later in this process. >> we'll see where the process goes. >> bill: on what grounds will you say yes to participation? >> the judiciary committee has -- jerry nadler has been trying to impeach im, nancy pelosi was afraid to have him take over the proceeding and put it to adam schiff. he grew mushrooms in the dark, having these depositions if secret and for the whole world to see. in what process in a first world country centered on the rule of law do we have the equivalent of the judge, adam schiff, giving three to five minute long statements about the defendant, donald trump, who isn't present and can't have a lawyer present? in no regular court would that be appropriate. that would be objec

plus, stephen welcomes: congressman adam schiff. and musical guest sharon van featuring jon batiste and stay human. and, now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( band playing ) >> stephen: come on! hey! it's the holiday season, that's what it is! that's what it is! ( cheers and applause ) oh, my goodness! welcome one and all, ladies and gentlemen, children of all ages, to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. the big story continues to be donald trump's allergic reaction to the constitution. ( laughter ) tonight, i'll stab you with the epipen of fun in the latest installment of "don and the giant impeach." ( cheering ) >> i have the right to do whatever i want as president. >> stephen: today, the house judiciary committee debated whether to send two articles of impeachment to the house floor. but first, they spent hours proposing highly specific and asinine amendments. like one from florida congressman and human/hangover hybrid, matt gaetz. ( audience booing ) gaetz argued t

i think adam schiff is a deranged human being. i think he group a con plex for reasons that are obvious. i think he's a very sick man and he lies. he made up my conversation with the president of the ukraine. lou: adam schiff on the rachel maddow show. >> that's the end of our investigation. even while judiciary does its work, we are continuing to do our work and issue subpoenas. that work goes on. but we feel a sense of urgency. this is a the a here, it all starts with a simple... hello! hi! how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! wifi up there? uhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your local xfinity store today. some people say that's ridiculous. age is just an illusion. how you show up for the world, that's what's real. what's your idea? i put it out there with a godaddy website. political tensions lou: president trump responding

so i think a lot of republicans would obviously love to have adam schiff come as a witness. adam schiff has really become a face of their anti-impeachment movement and has been used as a bit of a foil on the side of republicans, however, it's hard for me to imagine democrats really allowing that to move forward. you're hearing a lot of witnesses being floated from both sides, you know, especially from republicans. not only adam schiff, but joe and hunter biden as well, but i'm hesitant to say whether either of those scenarios will actually happen. >> since mitch mcconnell holds the keys to this senate trial, what do you think about the effort here by democrats and nancy pelosi of raising public sentiment to get those witnesses to testify? >> yeah, it's interesting in terms of nancy pelosi's strategy with, you know, getting these witnesses to testify, as well as delaying the articles of impeachment to go to the senate right now. remember, this comes just before the christmas holiday, so we know that congress won't be -- the senate won't be back until january 3rd, the house wo

adam schiff spoke for the better part of 20 minutes there. kind of giving a closing argument like he did in the public hearings in the house committee and took a few questions. i want to bring in brett bear, the abe core of "special report." anything jump out that he just said here? >> a couple things. you're seeing the outlines of what chairman schiff and democrats in the majority believe are the articles of impeachment. that is bribery, abuse of power, contempt of congress and obstruction of justice. those four generally. and it will be up to the judiciary committee to put it together. the thing that jumped out is this explanation about why democrats have to move fast, move now. because chairman schiff said that they believe the president could do it again. saying reach out to other foreign entities to somehow affect the 2020 election. so they feel they're compelled to act now as opposed to wait for these key people to testify like mick mulvaney and secretary pompeo and rudy guliani. that would have to wind its way through the courts. schif

that adam schiff lies. kevin mccarthy said that too he has a long history of not telling the truth. you heard that soundbite of him saying i haven't made up my mind yet. really? steve: reserving judgment. brian: here is kevin mccarthy. >> the president is overseas defending our country and they're back home dividing our country. that's what's wrong with this. that's why this put is being presidential. and they are doing exactly what they always said they would do. for adam schiff to sit there and lie once again this that press conference not knowing how is he going to vote. a couple weeks ago he was in california speaking to all the of the democrats we are going to send him back to the golden throne. this is all he has wanted to do. he will do anything to get it. steve: one of the things the republicans have said repeatedly is that clearly what the democrats are trying to do in the house is they are trying to overturn the will of the people 63 million americans voted for donald trump. and they are trying to

what is it about adam schiff that makes him so unique? as you know, none of these are about politics at all. >> he's a very strange guy. he lives in an alternative kind of universe. greg: right. >> he sees the world his own way, which we're all encouraged to do. greg: right, exactly. >> i prepare for the role by wearing shoes that are two sizes too small. [laughter] >> then i spray lemon juice into my eyes and then we're off to the races. [laughter] >> simple. greg: i imagine you are being treated differently when you walk down the street. >> around fox news i am certainly. all they want to talk about is adam schiff. i'm getting e-mails every day. they are fantastic. i'm hearing the suggestions. we have a lot of creative writers out there. greg: do you know what it's made me -- it's made me kind of interested in his life, kat. i want to know more about adam. do you know his wife's name is eve? >> i did not. greg: adam and eve, kat. >> i have heard of the bible. greg: jonathan is aware of that. maybe you aren't. >> i know the bible. greg: