"I'M PROUD" Adam Schiff Talks About He Great He Is For Leaking Government Information
newly-released memo from democrats countering claims from how House
Intelligence Committee Republicans that the FBI abused its surveillance powers
by targeting one-time Trump campaign advisor Carter Paige in 2016 the
Democratic memo released last night argues that survey that the surveillance
warrant used to monitor Paige was perfectly appropriate it also reveals
the FBI first met with Paige back in March 2016
before the controversial steal dossier on Donald Trump and Russia was written
the memo also asserts that the Justice Department specifically disclosed to the
FISA Court that Steele was hired by politically motivated sources although
the memo does not mention the Clinton campaign or the DNC by name this is a
rebuttal to the Republicans Nunez memo by House Intelligence Committee Chairman
Devin Nunez which accused the FBI of not mentioning Democratic ties to the
dossier after its release President Trump said the Republican memo totally
vindicated him in the Russia probe as for the Democratic memo he says they
quote total political and legal bust and he's calling the man who wrote it
representative Adam Schiff Democrat of California quote a bad guy joining me
now to respond in an exclusive interview interview his Democratic congressman
from California Adam Schiff congressman good to see is always at your new memo
from the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released
yesterday take a listen to what President Trump said in response during
an interview last night well all you do is you see this Adam Schiff he has a
meeting and he leaves the meeting and he calls up reporters and then all of a
sudden they have news and you're not supposed to do that it's probably
illegal to do it you know he'll have a committee meeting and he'll he'll leak
all sorts of information you know he's a it's a bad guy but it's certainly the
memo was a nothing you're a sponsor well I'm proud to be one of the bad Andres I
guess what the president is referring to I think what really aggravated him is
when his son came to testify before our committee I asked him about
conversations he had with the president where the president was on that aircraft
and they concocted this false statement about that meeting at Trump Tower the
Russians and he refused to answer the questions claiming attorney-client
privilege which clearly doesn't apply to a situation where neither he nor his
father are returning our client our position is and the Republicans have
adopted as well.if witnesses refused to answer questions and make bogus claims
of privilege as he did as Steve Bannon did we call them out on it well the
president doesn't like that but that's not a leak that's a fact and it did
disclose testimony he gave it disclosed a privilege that he asserted that
doesn't apply so I'm not surprised the president doesn't like it
I'm not surprised frankly that the White House tried to bury this memo response
as long as they could but it's important for the public to see the facts that the
FBI acted appropriately and seeking a warrant and Carter page they're not part
of some deep State as the president apparently would like the public to
believe so your counterpart the Republican chairman of the House
Intelligence Committee Devin hoon is also took a jab of your memo yesterday
at CPAC take a listen what you basically will read in the Democrat memo is they
are advocating that it's okay for the FBI and DOJ to use political dirt paid
for by one campaign and use it against the other campaign your response my
response is that the information that was used in part and the FISA
application came from a trusted source Christopher Steele someone who's a
respected member of British intelligence and it was part of a full package that
was presented to the FISA Court and it would have been negligent frankly given
what the FBI knew about Carter page the history that he had the fact had been a
target of Russian recruitment even prior to this the fact that they went out and
interviewed him in March even before Christopher Steele produced any part of
the so-called dossier that they were acting in good faith and disclosed to
the FISA Court that those who were funding Christopher Steele's work likely
had a political motivation but they did it in a campaign they didn't disclose
though that it was from the Clinton funded by the Clinton campaign and the
DNC for our listeners who aren't familiar with the FISA Court it's a
closed private secret process where the Justice Department the FBI are supposed
to prevent present all information they can to get the warrant but there isn't a
defense attorney there wouldn't it have been better in retrospect if they had
disclosed everything not just that it was political opponents of the president
orb then candidate Donald Trump but that it was Hillary Clinton's campaign in the
DNC wouldn't that have been better well two points Jake first it's ironic that
the Republicans would attack the FBI for following their procedures which require
that they minimize the names of US persons and US entities that are not the
subject of a warrant so even Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are referred to
as candidate one and candidate two they're supposed to mask the identities
of people the second point Jake that it's very
important for people to know is the issue is when did Christopher's steal
know what did he know that might influence him that might bias him
Christopher Steele did not know who was paying who the client was who was paying
the freight and so what the FBI properly reported is what they suspected what
first over Steele may have suspected and they masted a purply if that's what
they're supposed to do and to suggest otherwise to take issue with Franken
I've been on the committee now for ten years Jake this is the first time the
Republicans have ever taken an issue with any FISA application I don't think
it's a coincidence that it serves the president's interest to do so here but
the FBI acted appropriately would there have been a warrant a FISA warrant
granted without the inclusion of the Steele dossier I think and the only
testimony we have on this is that it was a part of the complete whole of the
application and all the parts were important so I don't know that I can
answer that except to say I think it was important
I'll also say this though there's been a lot made about the fact that some of the
still reporting at the time it was included was uncorroborated that's true
of almost every warrant application if search warrant applications and criminal
wiretap applications and FISA Court applications could only rely on things
that were proven and verified you would have very few of them part of the reason
to get the application is seeking proof when you have probable cause that a
crime may be committed or that someone may be acting isn't love a foreign power
and let me let me follow up on that because your memo also says that the
FISA application references steel dossier information about
Carter page being offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton while
he was in Moscow in July 2016 had that information been independently
corroborated by the FBI when they applied for the warrant Jake I can't go
beyond what the FBI said that we could release to the public but I can tell you
this the Republicans have taken issue with the fact that we in or that the FBI
included information about George papadopolis in the warrants that
information did disclose that the Russians had communicated with
Papadopoulos someone occupied this same position of foreign policy advisor in
the Trump campaign that they had dirt on Hillary Clinton that they wanted a
relationship and they previewed the dissemination of that information which
the court could see was taking place in real time at the time that the FBI
appeared before the FISA Court that was directly relevant to whether they were
doing the same thing with Carter page all right congressman Schiff thank you
so much always good to have you thanks Jake
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