and joining me now, top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, thank you for joining me. your testimony and more coming later in the week. >> the real answer is cover. they have been attempting this through additional interviews to make it look like the committee is something other than

compartmented programs there could be a difference of opinion. >> senator lankford congressman adam schiff but hillary clinton are pushing back hard on the story with the spokesman accused the inspector citizen if the let here he sent, two committee chairman, accusing the inspector general of playing politics. here is the spokesperson. >> he put up two republican senators to send this letter to bring this out that have been discredited. >> hillary clinton said the suppose through super secret information was a "new york times" article about a drone program. here she is. >> the best we can determine is it is likely what they are referring to is the forwarding of a "new york times" article. >> senator, let me ask directly to respond to them and to congressman schiff. (1) is it just politics? (2) is it the newspaper article? >>> in, this clinton procedure of attacking the passenger and saying the messenger must be a messenger of the right wing vast conspiracy out there, the inspector general is an obama appointee and dough his job, is asked to keep the committee up to date and be able to keep

joining me now, two top members of the house and senate intelligence committees here in washington, adam schiff, and james lankford. how sensitive was invite information in clinton's private e-mails? and does it represent a security threat if a foreign government was able to get ahold of it? >> it absolutely represents a security threat. there's about 1340 e-mails that we know of so far that had classified information. there's been a lot of conversation about what the s.a.p., special access program, information that's been referred to. it's a special compartmentalized top secret information that only certainly individuals should be able to see this. so yes, it is a major risk to outside of a government server. >> congressman schiff, you've generally i think it's fair to say have downplayed this store. what about some of the information what this special access program, a special classification, some say higher some say just a specific secret? >> chris, when you read these e-mails, i think what leaps out at you is you see why there would be a difference of opinion between the state department an

first you have this inspector classified s.a.p., special access programs, and despite adam schiff's talk about we don't want him discrediting -- and mccullough. >> who of course has said something was previously classified, and them james clapper said, no, that was a classified. so we have things going back and forth, and argument about what is classified and not. the over-arching point to me is republicans don't want to run against hillary clinton. they think they have an easier shot against bernie sanders. that's why you have karl rove and american controlledroads running ads against hillary clinton. this becomes a highly politicized investigation. the moment is, yes, mrs. clinton is entitled, privileged, line, chris? does she violate the law? that's what i'm arguelinging. >> this is quite the doors emergency from juan williams. by the end of 2008, the last remaining argument hillary clinton could make against barack obama was that she is was competent, you wanted her picking up the phone call at 3:00, when juan williams is now even saying this was negligence -- >> i think she broke th

bring in congressman adam schiff of california, top democrat on the house intelligence committee and member of the house select committee on benghazi. so much talk about the nuclear deal that's set to be put into place. initially you were skeptical of the deal before supporting it. based on everything we have seen in the last 24 hours, does that at all change how you feel about this deal? >> i think what we have seen in the last few months is that iran is determined to comply with the agreement, they're shipping out uranium, taking steps to destroy the reactor core, pouring concrete into it. these are things that have to take place. they are taking place. it is clear from handling of the detention of sailors while the irgc is allowed to be provocative, rattle the saber, the ayatollah is not letting them go so far as to jeopardize the agreement. given the fact they followed through on these steps if they were to try to scuttle the agreement now, they've not gotten the benefit of it in terms of sanctions relief and unfreezing of assets, but they have pushed back time line in terms of a

lawful commerce in arms act a companion measure in the house of representatives was introduced by adam schiff manufacture should be subject to the same safety standards standards that other industries are and no should be based on state laws not of a federal sweetheart deal that makes them accountable to laws that other manufacturers in other industries have to follow the nation's largest gun the national rifle association opposes the bill saying it is false that there's any blanket immunity contending that manufacturers can be sued for negligent design and dealers can be sued for knowingly selling a gun to a prohibited person you're talking about suing the manufacturer for the legal use of a product it be like suing for a drunk driver hits a pedestrian it's not the manufacturer the dealer that's a fault it's the person is actually committing the act. senator can acknowledges that getting such a bill through is very tough he said the chance of this passing is slim because congress has proven unwilling to even embrace reasonable rules that the public support but that doesn't mean he said that

democratic congressman adam schiff says that pet tray yuts's testimony yesterday was consistent with what he told congressional investigators more than two years ago when he debunked conspiracy theories. those assaults in libya four years ago killed four americans including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. >> in what democrats are calling political theater, congressional republicans made good on a campaign promise to repeal obamacare and defund planned parenthood. the bill is now heading for certain veto by president obama. abc's kenneth moton reports on the political fight. >> reporter: repealing president obama's signature health care law. stripping away federal funding for planned parenthood. the fight continues in the gop-controlled congress. >> with this bill, we are standing for life. we are confronting the president with the hard honest truth, obamacare doesn't work. >> reporter: there have been more than 60 unsuccessful attempts by republicans to dismantle the affordable care act, but this is the first time a repeal will reach the president. it's sure to be met with veto. the b

congressman adam schiff, north korea hasn't been shy about it intentions.t to play for you something that the former president of the united states bill clinton had to say about the deal he struck with north korea to end its nuclear weapons program back in 1994. listen to this. >> before i take your questions, i'd like to say just a word about the framework with north korea that was signed this morning. this is a good deal for the united states. north korea will freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program. south korea and our other allies will be better protected. the entire world will be safer as we slow the spread of nuclear weapons. south korea with support from japan and other nations will bear most of the cost of providing north korea with fuel to make up for the nuclear energy it is losing. and they will pay for an alternative power system for north korea that will allow them to produce electricity while making it much harder for them to produce nuclear weapons. the united states and international inspectors will carefully monitor north korea to mak

adam schiff, a man i have know you respect says otherwise. >> adam had to say that. against forming this committee in the first place and he threatened to walk away and called for it to be disbanded months ago. they also put up an ask and answer website before we interviewed the first witness. he was on house intel. so they issued a report. anything new that we find necessarily impeaches his own work from two years ago. i would ask you to go with what general petraeus said yesterday, not on was it constructive. it's constructive enough that we are going to talk to him again. he's a you've peek in witness. he can speak to all three areas of benghazi. bill: where is he taking you. >> he's take us to a degree of specificity. the before, the security. the cia with security at air annex with what the state department did not do with respect to security at their facility. the place where he helped me the most yesterday is the notion of whether we had assets that could have impacted in what happened in benghazi, and if we did not have assets in the region, this is a really

. >> congressman, adam schiff came out and said if they ordered a stand-down, it may make for good entertainmentoes not make for a well-informed public. movies can be very persuasive. is this hurting clinton in any way among any voter bloc? >> i don't. i don't think there's any concern about that. as i said, secretary clinton has been targeted by this investigation. and yet a republican high-level official said they were just doing that to drive her poll numbers down. and it didn't succeed. she testified for 11 hours. i think they has put the issue to bed. you're right in the popular culture you can perpetuate various means and even myths. but i don't think it's going to stick in that way. i'm not certain yet this film is even a blockbuster. >> we'll see. some say it could be the next "american sniper". we'll see what it is. since i have you, i just want to talk about clinton's strategy heading into tomorrow night. you have the final debate before the iowa caucuses. you have that gap between sanders and clinton narrowing so much in the past two weeks. i had a surrogate for bernie sanders who sai

and joining me now, top democrat on the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, thanktestimony and more coming later in the week. >> the real answer is cover. they have been attempting this through additional interviews to make it look like the committee is something other than secretary clinton. but there was no reason they couldn't have brought the general in a year ago or six months ago and a year and a half ago. the general has been in front of congress three times on this issue saying there's no politicalization in these events. and it began spontaneously. those facts were wrong but it was the best estimate at the time. so i guess we'll hear the general say the same things all over again today, just as a way of, i think, going through the motions, giving the respectability to a committee that really has none left. >> but congressman, his point, congressman pompeo's point is when they questioned general petraeus before, they did not have access to all of those e-mails. thousands and thousands of pages of what hillary clinton was saying to family, friends, aides, co

if you look at congressman adam schiff.rtunity to scrutinize these e-mails. a handful have. the chairman and ranking members of some of the committees of jurisdiction have had an opportunity. congressman schiff was out with a statement suggesting a lot of this is being taken out of context and affirming our perspective if people had the opportunity to judge this, they'd find it quite less serious than what the statements swirling out there make it seem like. he gave the example the other day on fox news sunday, he was apeering on a sunday show and gave the example of a news article being forwarded to secretary kerry, if he was on an overseas trip. it could be even though the article was published that if the cia was coming in and had an opportunity to second-guess whether that should have been put into an e-mail, they might say, hey, we are going to redact that for classification purposes, even though millions of people would have read that article that same day in the newspaper. and that's sort of the irrational approach w

this inspector general saying this was so classified s.a.p., special access programs, and despite adam schiff's talk about we don't want him discrediting -- and mccullough. >> who of course has said something was previously classified, and them james clapper said, no, that was a classified. so we have things going back and forth, and argument about what is classified and not. the over-arching popot to me is republicans don't'tantto r r against hillary clinton. they think they have an easier shot against bernie sanders.

joining me now, two top members intelligence committees here in washington, adam schiff, and james lankford. how sensitive was invite information in clinton's private e-mails? and does it represent a security threat if a foreign government was able to get ahold of it? >> it absolutely represents a security threat. there's about 1340 e-mails that we know of so far that had classified information. there's been a lot of