congressman adam schiff is the one making that accusation. we're going to talk to him in just a moment about what happened behind closed doors. but first the mandate of this special series is to start with facts first. here is the fact of the day. someone is lying about what president trump said during that immigration meeting. democratic senator dick durbin doubled down today, telling jake tapper that, yes, the president called certain nations shithole countries. republican senator lindsey graham has all but confirmed it is true. here's a key fact. their stories have never changed. that matters when you're assessing reliability and credibility. you cannot say the same for senators purdue and cotton. both started by saying they could not recall if the man who should have been the focus of their attention, the president of the united states, said a fairly unforgettable word. then they both changed their story. cotton saying he didn't hear the vulgar word. purdue saying it was a gross misrepresentation. we invited both on the show. both decline

schiff, there are very few people that have the respect that adam schiff does. he is a total straight shooter. he's on tv because i'm sure cnn called him and said come on and explain what's going on. he is a great translator of what is actually happening behind the scenes. and if we don't have that transparency, what are we as a democracy. bravo to adam schiff for at least being out there and his willingness to explain. >> agree to disagree. governor, senator, stick around. we're going to debate what happens after i talk one on one with republican congressman chris collins. because there's more news. there's word out about what kind of continuing resolution, how to fund the government, what the proposal is from the republicans. we'll test it with chris collins from western new york, next. you won't see these folks at the post office. they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100

adam schiff dejected there. he did get right, this is historic for many reasons, american public som should appld transparency. >> good afternoon, this is a historic evening the vote that just took place is vitally important, american people have been told that trump administration as colluded with russia government, underlying investigation that taking place is that democrats, fueled a dossier that has we believe was used to then spy on innocent americans, american people deserve to see the 4 pages, we need to know what our government did, did they use irk menges ire police power state they have to stystay on innocent importance. charles: we'll get a chance to see what some house members describe as horrific, shocking news, very damning for our intelligence committee. >> also report that mccabe staff members read the report ahead of time, there is reason to think there is a lot in this memo. democrats, we're seeing them talk about this being a witch-hunt by the republicans. and making this all about mueller inv

ensuring privacy protections this is adam schiff and nancy pelosi speaking in favor of this bill it's not right to say there is nothing in this bill that protects the privacy of the american people the underlying bill strikes a far better compromise and for that reason i urge opposition to the amendment and support for the underlying bill this bill essentially hands a great deal of power over to donald trump and the executive branch of the u.s. government it enables a quite a bit of spying to take place and surveillance to take place and does not require warrants it essentially permits the law to continue and does not have these privacy protections that were pushed for by certain members of congress now it's interesting that these kind of powers were handed over to the president as we've heard some rather derogatory statements about the president from nancy pelosi and adam schiff this is what they said about the man they just gave a great deal of power to what the president did was totally outrageous totally outrageous he doesn't know right from wrong true from false you know plainly

congressman adam schiff is the one making that accusation. we're going to talk to him in just a moment about what happened behind closed doors. but first the mandate of this special series is to start with facts first. here is the fact of the day. someone is lying about what president trump said during that immigration meeting. democratic senator dick durbin doubled down today, telling jake tapper that, yes, the president called certain nations shithole countries. republican senator lindsey graham has all but confirmed it is true.

joining me now representative adam schiff of california. what is there memo? >>. >> it basically is something that chairman nunes had drafted to distort the facts to mislead the house members, and to carry political water for the white house. chris, it's a continuation of what we saw back in march of last year on march 20th, we had our first open hearing with comey in which can he revealed there had been an investigation ongoing investigation of the trump campaign. that the republicans considered to be such a disaster, that it was immediately the next night that the chairman went on this midnight run to the quhous white house purportedly got documents somewhere. he was providing to the white house showing corruption in the obama administration of the intelligence community. we later learned that was a fraud, had he obtained those materials from the white house itself. now we have a same, a similar effort by the chairman to put out this spinning, the spin into along the same lines. and what was so astounding to me about the fbi and doj letter is it reveals for

ensuring privacy protections this is adam schiff and nancy pelosi speaking in favor of this bill right to say there is nothing in this bill that protects the privacy of the american people the underlying bill strikes a far better compromise but for that reason i urge opposition to the amendment and support for the underlying bill this bill essentially hands a great deal of power over to donald trump and the executive branch of the u.s. government it enables a quite a bit of spying to take place and surveillance to take place and does not require warrants it essentially permits the law to continue and does not have these privacy protections that were pushed for by certain members of congress now it's interesting that these kind of powers were handed over to the president as we've heard some rather derogatory statements about the president from nancy pelosi and adam schiff this is what they said about the man they just gave a great deal of power to what the president did was totally outrageous totally outrageous he doesn't know right from wrong true from false you know plainly we have a

adam schiff comes out. once again, it seems they have drawn a huge red arrow pointing to the importance of the thing they're keeping inside the black box they won't let anyone see. >> exactly. that's exactly what the white house did with the "fire and fury" book. they said don't look at this, don't look at this. and of course everyone had to look. what is the white house so concerned about bannon telling lawmakers? we're also seeing why mueller felt compelled to issue a subpoena to steve bannon. >> that's the other question i want to ask you about. what do you take as the significance of that news which is interesting insofar as we don't think he's used that particular tool in his tool kit with someone that close to the president as of yet. >> there are different theories according to legal experts i've spoken to. the first is basically mueller wants to catch him without his counsel present. it's a much more intense environment. it's much more nerve-racking. it's much easier to catch him in a lie, for examp

speaking of going tit for tat with adam schiff on tv. for everyone tuning in, learning about this memo, what are they trying to do, undermine the doj and mueller investigation. what is this all about? >> notable description, talking about bichltpartisan interest and transparency. attack on mueller investigation and fbi. coming from multiple directions, mccabe. mueller. it's a deliberate and pretty coordinated effort undermine this investigation. have you to see the fisa memo as part of that. fisa court approves, follows the law, passed after 9/11. it's pretty ease toy get a fisa warrant i should say. most of those warrants are approved. what devin nunes is alleging here is that when a warrant was issued for carter page, trump campaign foreign policy adviser, that somehow this famous dossier compile bid the former british spy was involved in that and, therefore, it shows abuse for the foreign surveillance law. the fact is we know that the fbi would never seek a warrant based on outside intelligence. they just don't do that. i've spoken to

the only person who says that he has seen evidence of collusion is adam schiff and he saw it before we even began somehow. other than that, no one can cite any evidence of collusion which is why they're now pivoting to the obstruction of justice claim and away from collusion. >> martha: should adam schiff find anything to be concerned with, with lewandowski? >> adam can always find something to be concerned with a evening if he has to manufacture it. he got out in front of his skis earlier this year, early last year, and said he had evidence of collusion that was more than circumstantial and there ain't none. >> martha: in terms of steve ban on, the word is that -- bannon, the word is that he slipped up early in the question and answer yesterday and went into the territory after the president was elected. and saying that he spoke with reince priebus and spoke with sean spicer about the june meeting, then pulled back, wait, i'm not allowed to talk about anything after the campaign. >> i would take objection to the phrase slip up. he did what he was supposed to is answer all of the quest

>> well, that appears to be adam schiff's intention here. because later in a statement, he makes the point that thus far, committee republicans have not allowed the intelligence committee to go down this path. and at least investigate these allegations, which they are. this is an allegation. it is not proven. in fact, when glenn simpson was testifying, he was pressed by committee republicans, saying, wait a second. do you have proof of this? do you have evidence of this? and he admitted he didn't have evidence. but that there were signs, indications, hints, et cetera, something that needed more investigation. it was effectively his line. and that was effectively adam schiff's line here. okay, this is a serious allegation. at least my partners on the other side of the aisle, let's investigate this. >> glenn simpson raises allegations of money laundering by the trump administration and russia. steve bannon, by the way, in that new book -- >> michael wolff. >> he also raised allegations of money laundering. and phil, he goes one step further, g

. >> coming up, we'll ask the committee's top democrat adam schiff right here. and whiff of watergate as we navigate an unprecedented presidency nbc's tom brokaw sees some historic parallels. >> there's beginning to be a whiff of the tactics in place in this white house we saw during the days of watergate. how it all turns out, i can't say. it's clear the white house is trying to create an alternative reality is how i would describe it. >>> and good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where a controversial memo under review at the white house and the deputy fbi director's early exit are dominating the headlines ahead of donald trump's first state of the union address tonight. joining me now msnbc political analyst robert costa, national political reporter at the "washington post." msnbc national security contributor as well as "new york times" washington correspondent michael schmidt, and national political reporter carroll lee. first to you, carroll lee, your reporting on the conversations with andrew mccabe when the president first complained to him after t

. >> tucker: one of congressman gowdy's colleagues in the house intelligence committee is adam schiff. we've had a long-running dispute on the issue of russia. us of being agents ofa vladimir putin. >> tucker: can you look into the camera and say that i know for the fact that the government of vladimir putin was behind the hack? >> absolutely. the government was behind the hack of -- >> tucker: of john podesta's email? >> also in europe -- >> tucker: you know what, you are dodging -- >> tucker -- >> tucker: look at me and say that. >> i think ronald reagan would be rolling in his grave -- >> tucker: >> you are carrying r the kremlin. >> tucker:y you can't say they hacked -- >> you have to move your show to rt russian television. >> tucker: that is so beneath your office because it is so dumb and you are being duplicitous. i'm asking you, did they hacked the emails? look at my camera and say they hacked john podesta's emails, you can't, and you know you can't, and you are hiding behind weasel words. >> tucker:ha that guy is a liar at the demagogue in case you didn't notice. i call -- a

i'm so sick of adam schiff. is he just so pompous the way he comes out day after day grandstanding on this. he is clearly decided that this is the way to build his political career. and i'm just sick of hearing him lecture the rest of us on all this stuff. i'm also sick of the whole story, frankly. it seems to me that you get into the weeds of this story day after day after day. it's a story about itself. it's not about anything real and important in the real world anymore. >> melissa: let me take the other side of that though the president is saying he got burned once on bannon out there flapping his gums so he doesn't want it to happen again. and he is saying, look, i have the right to have, you know, discussions, frank discussions with my aids. and if i'm thinking he this are going to walk out and say something all the time then i'm not going to have frank discussion then why even have aides. this is the other side. i'm not saying that's my opinion i' m putting the other side of the argument out there. >> kat

if you are adam schiff, of course you don't want the information to come out. you didn't want us to find it in the first place. this memo answers what i think overly legitimate questions and i do think the fbi should look at it before it is released. i have provided that counsel to chairman nunez and i think that he has taken that under advisement. i want to play face-off poker. i want the bureau to know everything that's in the memo. i think you will be surprised, it is not a hit piece on the department and the fbi. i would not have participated in it if that's what it was. >> chris: let me pick up on this, because the reports are, and you kind of indicated that in your answer that the memo centers on this question of the fisa application, the department of justice application in 2016 for a warrant to conduct electronic surveillance against trump campaign manager carter page. your complaint, according to reports, is that you say that when they made that application, they didn't talk about the role of the russia dossier and especially the fact that there was op

by congressman adam schiff. what would be the implications for nunez putting this out for the world to see? >> well, the chairman of the house intelligence committee is ready to sacrifice national interest. to sacrifice investigative interest in order to help defend, protect and cover for the president. it's really a continuation of what the chairman did at the very beginning of the investigation when he went on that now very publicized midnight run to the white house. and then later went back to the white house to purportedly obtain evidence he obtained within the intelligence community. we later learned that actually information he was presented to the white house he had gotten from the white house. it was a charade. well, this is a very different kind and more serious that read, and that is that he's attempting to tar the entire intelligence community, the bob mueller investigation, in order to once again protect the president. and it's a terrible disservice as well as a terrible distraction. >> and i also wa

adam schiff comes out. once again, it seems they have drawn a huge red arrow pointing to the importance of the thing they're keeping inside the black box they won't let anyone see. >> that's exactly what the white house did with the fire and fury book. they said don't look at this. everyone had to look. what is the white house so concerned about bannon telling lawmakers. we're also seeing why mueller felt compelled to issue a subpoena to steve bannon. >> that's the other question i want to ask you. what do you take is the significance of that news which is interesting insofar as we don't think he's used ha particular tool in his tool kit with someone that close to the president as of yet. >> different theories according to legal experts i've spoken to. the first is basically mueller wants to catch him without his council present. it's a more intense environment, more nerve rack. it's much easier to catch him in a lie. the second theory and this is shared widely among people i spoke to is they want steve ban

a lot more including the president's state of mind and the agenda and adam schiff is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. thank you very much for coming in. your committee asked steve bannon to testify. you wanted to come before the house intelligence. >> we wanted him to come before the committee. there are a number of reasons we think he could shed light on a number of key meetings that take place. there is a lot you can tell us. >> your republican colleagues, are they on board? >> i think they are. i hope these revelations will not discourage them from falling through. >> you expressed concern in recent weeks about republicans trying to shut down the house intelligence investigation. do you still believe that? >> i do. certainly the push comes from the white house. we know overtly they worked to try to bring their investigation to a premature conclusion. unfortunately a lot of that work on behalf of the white house is being done by the committee. the efforts to go after the department of justice and bob mueller rather than focus on the russia investigation. we see

>> well, i think adam schiff, the ranking member of the tense committee said the same thing. i think it is important to get the truth and we have to do night way that doesn't compromise sources and doesn't compromise the important work of our intelligence agencies. it is very important that we set the record straight. and if they can be released, to show how misleading and inappropriate this memo is. that it draws couldn't cloogss that are not fair in an effort to really smear the fbi and smear law enforcement in a way to undermine this investigation. i think we ought to do it. we have to be conscious wlrgs it is done, it needs to be done in a way that protects the important work of our intelligence community. >> what they call sources and methods to make sure the u.s. intelligence gathering capabilities are not undermined. always a very sensety issue. thank you for joining us. >> i think he's looking for two categories of information. one with the first hand knowledge information he learned while he was serving in the administration about things he saw first hand with his ow

maybe not in the way that adam schiff wanted. when we last reported late last year he was seen leaving closed door testament with donald trump junior before a series of leaks from that testimony started popping up on cnn, "the new york times" and other media outlets raising questions about his handling of the sensitive information during that testimony. new tonight i'm told schiff keeps asking for more witnesses to try and prove collusion between the trump campaign and russia that has not panned out. that is being rejected by republican chairman devin nunes who is bringing in a series of witnesses that may bring more damaging revelations on the other side, top f.b.i. and justice department officials who allegedly went easy on hillary clinton and more revelations about fusion gps and the dossier you mentioned paid for in part by the dnc and clinton camp. nunes is planning to bring in eight witnesses including f.b.i. officials strzok and page who exchanged those anti-trump text messages. another witness we're told will be obama jus

joining us now adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. congressman, thank you for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. i have to say, as a house watcher, i think you and i probably have never heard someone say i can't talk about the most important issue of the day i have to go to a copyright hearing. that's a new one. >> it is hard to top copyright in terms of interest. >> i want to get your reaction to something that michael wolff just said on this show. it's an issue that in a criminal case would be left to a jury and an impeachment case would be brought to you. and that is, if there is an obstruction of justice case that is presented to the house of representatives and one of the elements of an obstruction of justice case is that the president ordered the firing of robert mueller, what michael wolff just said is he was saying that all the time. he was saying fire mueller the time. i want to fire mueller all the time. michael wolff said it was like wallpaper so people did not take it seriously and it might, in the president's min

we heard from adam schiff who spoke to reporters following the vote to release the gop memo. he was joined by other committee democrats at this 15 minute briefing. mr. schiff: good evening. i want to give a quick briefing on the events of the committee evening. i think we have crossed a deeply regrettable line in this committee where the first time in the 10 years i've been on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification and intentionally compromised sources and methods. i made a couple of motions this evening. first, we scheduled a hearing today, a business meeting so that the minority memoranda can be made available to the members of the house that had been misled by the majority's memoranda. we expected that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. the house members will now have access to the minority memoranda. i made a secondary motion that prior to the public release of either memoranda that the fbi and department of justice have the opportunity to come and brief the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda on the underlying facts and

and here now to discuss all of this is california congressman adam schiff, who joins us via skype from washington, d.c. good to have you back on the program. >> thank you. great to be with you. >> we'll get to the russia investigation a molt. but i wanted to ask you about the looming government shutdown. you voted against the stop gap resolution in the house. why? some months ago, the president created a crisis to the d.r.e.a.m.ers by revoking the daca program but promised to fix it, and now republicans are proposing to continue in a spending bill to leave that unaddressed and leave these young people's lives hanging by a thread. i'm not willing to do that. i'm not willing to pass a cr and worry about this another day. there ought to be room for bipartisan agreement on this. we need to reauthorize the children's health care program, and i think it's deeply irresponsible shut down the government or pass another funding bill that leaves these populations vulnerable. >> the last time there was a government shutdown in 2013, the democrats charged that congress should not be held hodge stag

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schiff and the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up whether everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it. violence has erupted in front of europe's largest prison with gone on strike over dangerous working conditions including attacks on stuff police have fired tear gas at the protesting guards who are demanding an increase in the security level. another prison in corsica to come ons were injured in a stopping by an inmate reportedly radicalized inside the incident was it knowledge to us by a french prisoner. oh you know this is well that's a serious incident to police in blue prison a ridiculous inmate brutally comics. french prisoners have recently suffered several similar attacks on gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attacked them with scissors and a razor blade one on monday at another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetrator had again been radicalized i

schiff and the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up let everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it when republicans are even speculating that the infamous tom dusty it was used to obtain a surveillance warrant against the chung campaign i mean is it possible that a political document with unproven allegations could be used today that i fear so because as i indicated when point blankly asked if that was the case both the f.b.i. director and the the current a number two man a justice who is heading the russian issues because sessions recused himself rosenstein.

that was not permitted according to adam schiff. i want to make clear, the scenario i offered of the democratic memo released at the same time, the republicans don't want that to come out. they say sure, they care about the russia investigation, but in their view this memo raises questions about whether that investigation was fair at the beginning. >> let's that a moment when you suggest perhaps this investigation isn't fair. are they alleging it's unfair that the highest levels of the trump campaign and trump's former national security adviser have all been either indicted or have taken guilty pleas? is that unfair? are they suggesting it's unfair to have uncovered this meeting at trump tower between the president's son, jared kushner, and agents of the russian military? please. the real issue here is not to call into question the fairness. it's to look at the facts and protect the special counsel so he can continue and follow this through to wherever it takes him. >> congressman, we have some breaking news here. we have speaker ry

joining us now is congressman adam schiff. it's really nice to have you back with us tonight, particularly this evening. thank you for being here. >> good to be with you. >> if a person is subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury on a criminal or counter intelligence matter and then they are subpoenaed to testify to congress on the same matter, do those things potentially conflict? and if so, does the criminal or counter intelligence matter take precedence over congress's subpoena? >> they don't necessarily conflict, and one doesn't necessarily take precedence over the other. i can't tell you anything about the timing of the special counsel's subpoena or whether it was a reaction to our inviting mr. bannon to appear before our committee, but there's nothing that would preclude him from testifying completely before our committee and also fully cooperating with the special counsel. what makes this so bewildering, is the position the white house has taken with steve bannon was directly contradicted by the other executive branch witn

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joining us now is adam schiff. it's really nice to have you back with us tonight, particularly this evening. thankful for you to be here. >> good to be with you. >> if a person is subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury on a criminal or counter intelligence matter and then they are subpoenaed to testify to congress on the same matter, do those things potentially conflict? and if so, does the criminal or counter intelligence matter take precedence over congress's subpoena? >> they don't necessarily conflict, and one doesn't necessarily take precedence over the other. i can't tell you anything about the timing of the special counsel's subpoena or whether it was a reaction to our inviting mr. bannon to appear before our committee, but there's nothing that would preclude him from testifying completely before our committee and also fully cooperating with the special counsel. what makes this so bebuiwilderi is the position the white house has taken with steve bannon was directly contradicted by the other executive branch w

the name to remember. >>> joining us now is congressman adam schiff. he is the top democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman schiff, thank you for being here tonight. we really brought it. >> looking forward to it. >> i was looking forward to getting your reaction to this dramatic move by senator dianne feinstein. if your home state california she made a unilateral decision to release this transcript today against the wishes of the committee chairman. what is your reaction to her decision to do that and to what we've learned based on this new transcript? >> well, a couple of reactions. first of all, i'm very glad that she did it. the senate judiciary committee operates under different rules than we do in the house intelligence committee can and they have more latitude than to release transcripts than we do. but i was also calling for the their release so the public could see exactly what glen simpson had to say and what the situation was in terms of christopher steel and put away some of the misinformation campaign that has been put thr

schiff in the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up whether everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it. violence has erupted in from say europe's largest prison with guns on strike over dangerous working conditions including attacks on stuff riot police have fired tear gas at the protesting gone to our demanding an increase in the security level while only arabs another prison in corsica two governments were injured in a stabbing by an inmate reportedly being radicalized in sinai well the incident was a non-issue to us by french prison. oh you know this is well that's a serious incident to police in blue prison ridiculous inmate brutal. acts. well french prisons have recently suffered several similar attacks on the gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attack there with scissors and a razor blade while on monday at another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetr

here's what the ranking democrat adam schiff had to say about the release of simpson's transcripts. he said, those transcripts reveal serious allegations that the trump organization may have engaged in money laundering with russian nationals, the same subject which mr. bannon described in his interview with the author of "fire and fury." if the trump organization did engage in money laundering with the russians, it would be with the knowledge or approval of the kremlin and constitute powerful leverage over the president of the united states. what do you make of the allegations of money laundering here? >> i think it's interesting, because simpson and his official conducted their own investigation and looked at a lot of evidence. i think a lot of viewers are wondering what does mueller know and see? what evidence does mueller have? i think with the transcript today tells us is potentially some of the conclusions that mueller could be drawing. so obviously the conclusions he's talking about respect themselves evidence. but he's drawing evidence from the conclusions he does see. if the

adam schiff came out of the room tonight and said after the subpoena was issued to him, steve bannon continued to refuse to answer questions despite the subpoena. if all this is is true, i have more questions. can you refuse to answer questions in the face of a subpoena? is it unusual for the white house to tell a white house advisor to say in the to answer questions for condition geegres? is it unusual they have a say p -- subpoena ready to go for him in the room and why did both of these things happen in the same day? right? i mean, twice. did one of these subpoenas that make the other one happen? did they tend to arrive in pairs? is one going to interfere with the other? is this more ordinarily than it seems? i have exactly the right person here in studio next to explain this and michael schmidt who broke this story hours before anyone else got near it. stay with us. pssst. what? i switched to geico and got more. more savings on car insurance? a-ha. and an award-winning mobile app. that is more. oh, there's more. mobile id cards, emergency roadside service... more technology. i ca

this is adam schiff outside of the house intel committee. let's listen. >> i made a secondary emotion that prior to the public release of either memoranda and that the fbi, department of justice have the opportunity to come in brief the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda on the underlying facts and underlying materials. so that the committee could make a responsible judgment as to whether they memoranda should be made public. that motion was voted down by the majority. the majority expressed a concern that something in that minority memoranda or otherwise could compromise sources and methods. for exactly that reason, we asked for both memoranda be vetted by the fbi and the department of justice. that was voted down. i spoke with the director of the fbi earlier this afternoon. he expressed a strong interest in being able to brief our committee prior to any release of these materials about concerns that the bureau and the department have. i relayed that interest by the director of the fbi, appointee of president trump, to t

adam schiff came out of the room tonight and said after the subpoena was issued to him, steve bannon continued to refuse to answer questions despite the subpoena. if all this is is true, i have more questions. can you refuse to answer questions in the face of a subpoena? is it unusual for the white white house to have told a white house adviser not to answer questions from congress? is it unusual the committee in congress had a subpoena for him ready to go in the room as soon as they came to that standoff? and last but not least, why did both of these things happen on the same day? right? i mean, twice. did one of these subpoenas that make the other one happen? did they tend to arrive in pairs? is one going to interfere with the other one? is this more ordinarily than it seems? i have exactly the right person here in studio next to explain this to us. plus we have michael schmidt here who broke the story today hours before anyone else got anywhere near it. stay with us. to that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. do not

i am so proud of adam schiff. and isn't he doing a beautiful job in his role? [applause] ms. pelosi: eric swalwell, another member of our committee. and i'm very proud of all of the members. the speaker and the leader have the privilege and the responsibility to dep ties, to name who's -- deputize, to name who's on the intelligence committee. it's not people run. it's a personal appointment. the chairman, the ranking member, speaker, leader. as well as the members of the committee. and i think we have tried over the years to honor the fact that this is about our security. in the old days when i was there first it was about force protection. it still is, how to protect our forces to avoid conflict but when we go in to make sure -- then, all kinds of multinational issues. of course, terrorism. but this is really seriously -- a serious responsibility. the speaker has appointed somebody who's totally irresponsible, politicizing the process and really it should not be happening. for example, right now he's talking about releasing a document, releasing a document that is predicated

schiff in the democrats on the committee then why not vote to release it so you could clear all this up whether everybody see it the democrats want to hide this document and we better get to the bottom of it and we all need to see it. violence has erupted in from say europe's largest prison with guards on strike haven't dangerous working conditions including attacks on stone riot police have fired tear gas at the protesting gone to and to montauk an increase in the security level. another prison in corsica two cons were injured in a stabbing by an inmate and reported to be radicalized inside the incident was acknowledged to us by a french prison union. oh you know in this it well that's a serious incident to police in blue prison ridiculous inmate brutally comics. french prisons have recently suffered several similar attacks on gods a week ago three security staff were injured after an inmate attacked them with scissors and a razor blade while on monday after another jail seven guards were attacked by an inmate and in that case according to the ministry of justice the perpetrator had

here's what adam schiff had to say about the release of simpson's transcripts. he said, those transcripts reveal serious allegations that the trump organization may have enganged in money laundering wih russian nationals, the same subject which mr. bannon described in his interview with the author of "fire and fury." if the trump organization did engage in money laundering with the russians, it would be with the knowledge or a proovrl of the kremlin and constitute powerful leverage over the president of the united states. >> what evidence does mueller have? i think with the transcript today, the conclusions he's talking about in his testimony are not themselves evidence, but he's essentially drawing conclusions from the evidence that he does see. obviously if there's money laundering in the trump organization involving russian mobst mobsters, that's a very, very serious problem and it's something that you could imagine being used as leverage. obviously that's the sort of thing when all of us were federal employees, we were asked a lot of questions about potentia

. >> if it were up to adam schiff you wouldn't know about hillary clinton's email, the server or who paid for the dossier. i find it ironic he has his own memo now. if it were up to him we wouldn't know any of it. >> sandra: peter doocy is live on capitol hill with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. tonight's state of the union will not be a big reveal of this memo that republicans believe will spotlight obama-era abuses of law enforcement tools. it may be a few days before anybody has any idea what's in it. >> he has up to five days. i think the process we have to introduce it on the house floor. if the house is out of session we'd need to wait until we're back in session to make that happen. >> with that comes a new warning from the democratic leader nancy pelosi out with this statement. chairman nunes's memo contains significant inaccuracies and omissions that misrepresent the intelligence and jeopardize the law enforcement and intelligence communities. republican colleagues are pointing out democrats have been calling for the release of a controversial document, too. >> i

instead, according to adam schiff, instead a vote was taken to release it. we are not quite sure of the timetable, yet, but we know the president wants to do it. it goes back to the point that we were talking ant before, which is the president of the united states believes that the department of justice and the fbi, regarding the russia investigation has been corrupt regarding him and he wants this out there without and the committee is not going to allow for the minority report to be released at the same time. it is kind of a stunning turn of events here. >> i want to go to manu raju who was there. it's amazing to hear that kind of talk from the top democrat of the committee, especially noting that the republicans decided to do all these things without any support from the minority. >> reporter: remarkable events. partisan briefing. there are a number of motions put forward and they got rejected everything from allowing the full house to get briefed by the doj and fbi before releasing the memo as well as their own democratic memo released alongside the nune

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let's bring in democratic congressman adam schiff of california, of course the ranking member of the house intel committee. congressman, always good to see you. where do we stand today? there seems to be so much confusion. i'm curious what you and your colleagues in the house were able to get accomplished since you reconvened at 9:00 a.m. this morning. >> well, we're really waiting to see what comes out of the white house and what emerges from the discussions in the senate. the house has pretty much punted hits responsibility, the speaker of the house has largely abdicated to the senate. the bigger problem is there's a certain basic lack of confidence in the white house. when you control everything, as the gop does, and you're the president of the united states, it is very hard to fail at keeping the government open. but somehow this white house has effectively shut us down. the trump administration couldn't negotiate a deal, this from the guy that proclaims himself the great negotiator, the great deal maker. but in any event, we are hoping that the white house will reconsider. there

we have heard from adam schiff who spoke to reporters following the report. he was joined by other committee democrats at this 15 minute briefing. rep. schiff: it evening i want to give a quick briefing on the events in the committee. i think we have a deeply regrettable line in this committee where for the first beenin the 10 years i've on the committee there was a vote to politicize the declassification of intelligence and compromise sources and methods. i made a couple of motions this afternoon, first we scheduled a hearing today, a business meeting so that the minority memoranda could be made available to the members of the house. we expect that vote to be noncontroversial and it was. the house members will now have access to the minority memoranda . i made a secondary motion that prior to the public release of either memoranda, that the fbi and the department of justice have the opportunity to come and briefed the entire house in a classified session on both memoranda, on the underlying that thematerials so committee could make it responsible judgment as