Schiff Threatens Republicans, Those Who Don’t Cooperate with Our Committee Will Be the Subject of Criminal Contempt

Watch as House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff and member of Pelosi’s January 6th commission threatens Republicans, saying those that don’t cooperate will be subject to criminal charges.

Schiff is a tool, and the country would be well served if he crawled back under the rock he came from.

Transcript:

BERMAN: “Chairman, thank you so much for being with us. I want to ask you a couple of questions on the select committee before we get to the book. We just mentioned the committee has said they are engaging, engaging with Mark Meadows and Kash Patel. What does that mean, exactly?”

SCHIFF: “I can’t go into the communications, but we have engaged with lawyers that are representing them to try to secure their testimony, but also to make it very clear that those who don’t cooperate with our committee are going to be the subject of criminal contempt.

We will vote on it in the House at the appropriate time, and we will refer to the Justice Department for prosecution. So, we’re not fooling around. We expect people to fulfill their lawful duties.

If there are legitimate questions that are raised, we’ll answer them, respond to them, but we want to make sure that we provide all this information to the American people. And these four witnesses in particular are really in a position to know exactly what the President was doing, what the response was like, why we weren’t better prepared, and the role of the administration in this attack on the U.S. Capitol.”

BERMAN: “So, engaging with Meadows and Patel, no more information on that. Steve Bannon, his team has already said he’s not cooperating, he’s not coming. So have you already started drafting the criminal referral?”

SCHIFF: “I can’t comment on that, but let me tell you what I think exactly is going on with Steve Bannon. This is one of the things I write about in the book.

During the Russia investigation, which was led at the time by a Chairman Devin Nunes, Republican, we subpoenaed Bannon, and he came in with 25 questions that were written out for him by the White House and said, ‘These are the only questions I’m going to allow you to ask, and I’ve already written out the answers and the answer to each is no.’ And the Republicans allowed that.

And Bannon knew he could get way with that, both because Republicans would allow that kind of obfuscation, but they knew that the Attorney General, Bill Barr, or before him Jeff Sessions, neither of them would enforce the law, they would both support and protect and cover up for Donald Trump.

That’s not the situation anymore. We have a new attorney general, a new Justice Department dedicated to the principle that no one is above the law. So Bannon is in a completely different situation now. I agree with Jamie Raskin, he’s exposed.”

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