Condoleezza Rice Crushes Adam Schiff On The View For Wasting America's Time
our next guest is public enemy number one with the White House as he heads up
the House Intelligence Committee investigation into Russian meddling in
the u.s. election please welcome congressman Adam Schiff your committee
spoke to hope Hicks yesterday I believe were sort of the day before day before
and then the next day she resigned from the White House saying that she and she
also said she had said these little white lies
number one can that lead to little white perjury that's my first question and the
second is is there so White House says it that the timing had nothing to do
with anything that it was just she decided the next day do you buy that I
don't know what was involved in the timing and you know in fairness to Hill
Hicks I wish the conversations of the
committee had never left the committee the question that was asked of her
though was certainly a pertinent question if a witness is willing to say
things that aren't true on behalf of the boss outside the
committee we need to know because it reflects whether it be truthful in the
committee but the most significant issue I had with her testimony are the whole
areas that she refused to testify on the instructions of the White House now
that's not her fault that's the instructions of her employers she could
do that well she can't unless we let her do that and this is the issue will the
Congress assert itself will the Congress insist on answers when Steve Bannon
refused to answer questions along the same lines the Republicans said well we
need to demand answers that's an outrage and they subpoenaed him on the spot I
said now Steve Bannon apparently is a man without a country
not beloved in the White House no longer with Breitbart so my colleagues in the
GOP were willing to stand up and assert the institutional responsibilities the
committee not so with Corey Lewandowski not so with hope Hicks not so with any
number of witnesses who have similarly refused to answer questions they need to
be subpoenaed they need to be compelled well by us as well as Muller but by us
and if there is a legitimate claim as to a small subset of questions that deal
with executive which then we should negotiate in
respect that you can't say we're simply not going to answer questions about
anything that happened during the transition and it can happen during
administration whether it involve the president or it didn't and we have
obviously very important questions to ask hope Hicks about the preparation of
that false statement about the meeting at Trump Tower Russians with John jr.
exactly I'd like to go a little different direction if you don't mind
because the you are at the Intelligence Committee probably the institution that
has best access to what actually happened with the Russians and my view
is if the Russians did it to us the first time shame on them if they do it
to us again shame on us so what are we doing from the investigation of the
White House of the transition or any of that how's the committee pursuing the
issue of what the Russians actually did and how we actually stopped it because I
can imagine that Vladimir Putin is ready to go again
and we shouldn't let him do it I think that's exactly right and indeed all of
our intelligence chiefs have said as much that they expect the Russians will
be back indeed the Russians have never left in terms of what's being done about
it I have to say not nearly enough the states are certainly taking action
they're hardening their elections infrastructure to make sure the Russians
can't penetrate it again can't monkey around with the vote counts
but what we need because you know how formidable the Russians are as an
adversary is a whole-of-government response where every cabinet secretary
is working within their portfolio to establish a deterrent for the Russians
there are still bipartisan sanctions sitting on the President's desk that he
refuses to implement we need to send a clear message to Russia that any further
meddling won't be tolerated they'll pay a heavy price for it
what kind of heavy price well the the price of the Russians care most about is
a price to their economy that's why the top priority for the Russians are doing
away with sanctions over their invasion of Ukraine doing way with sanctions over
their meddling in our election because what Putin really fears more than
anything else is not losing an election if you're a viable opponent the crown
you end up in jail or dead what he does fear though is the power of people to
gather in massive numbers and throw out their autocratic government and to the
degree the Russian economy suffers and people take to the streets that's the
threat that he fears I think we fully know what happened though are you
confident that we really understand how the Russians did what they did
we don't awful lot about how they did what they did in terms of their hacking
operation the dumping of documents in terms of their use of social media and
the use of paid media like RT & Sputnik we don't know as much as we should about
whether they also used financial entanglement which they have used in
Europe and elsewhere to exert influence and that's the money laundering issue we
obviously don't know the full role of the Trump campaign although we know a
lot more than that one than when we started we know enough though to take
firm steps to respond to them and to hardened our defenses we know enough to
know they'll be back so so let me ask you this because I find it insane that
you co-chair the Intel committee Devin unions is your co-chair and that you're
supposed to be working together and you have two different sides it's it's
become more about the politics rather than the job which is to do the Intel
that answers these questions and I want to know because if if this is so
partisan how are we supposed to understand it's just a regular person
going down the street how are we supposed to know who to believe yeah
competing memos I mean this this is a really central problem than challenge
yeah when we had our first open hearing in March of last year I said at that
time that the best service we could offer the public is if we could do a
thorough investigation arrive at a common conclusion and not force the
public to choose between a GOP version and Democratic version that was the goal
now I have been told since that hearing because of that hearing James Comey
revealed for the first time that he had opened an
investigation the previous July into the Trump campaigns connections with the
Russians that my colleagues in the GOP felt that her and was an unmitigated
disaster for them it was the very next day that the Chairman went on that
midnight run to get documents that he said showed malfeasance of the Obama
administration and the following day he went back and presented those and we
would learn that the documents he obtained actually had gotten from the
White House and it was concocted with the White House that's the point at
which the committee investigation really diverged and this memo business we asked
the Chairman was this similarly done in conjunction with the White House and he
wouldn't answer the question and it's very hard obviously to do it an
objective investigation if the chair views his mission differently as
protecting the president and I view our mission as protecting the public and and
letting the chips fall wherever they may and I would frankly be thrilled have
been thrilled if we could have seen this investigation through on a bipartisan
basis and reached whatever conclusion we reached whether it was exoneration or
incrimination well if we had done it together we just save it I've spent a
lot of time in Washington and I know you've got a really hard job and I
appreciate what you're doing for the country but I really hope you can wrap
it up the country needs to get back this gets done and by the way I just want to
say I'm Robert Miller this is somebody I know I worked with him he was FBI
director when I was national security adviser I have enormous respect for him
and he is going to do this in a very fair way and so I just hope we can get
it done so here's what we know here's what we know thus far congressman
Adam Schiff is sticking around okay good we'll be right back thank you god bless
you and God bless america
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