we talk about, we hear adam schiff talking about a pattern.you are the democratic party, you're still upset donald trump is the president. want to bring him down, resisted all costs. you are thirsty, if you will, for some smoking gun. but taking every opportunity to make it a smoking gun undermines the agenda and i think it does a disservice to an overarching goal of the takedown of the trump presidency. >> hyperbole is the only word that comes to mind when i think of democratic leaders. tim kaine called it treasonous today. as did other democratic lawmakers. when you overreact like this, you bring up impeachment, treason, i would ask any democrat to tell me three points of their platform for what will you do for the american people to make their lives better besides trump is a bad guy, russian was involved in the elections and what else do you have? what are you running on in 2018 and 2020 that people care about? >> eric: if money is the hook, the value, do you not think that hillary clinton is the secretary of state and the state department

adam schiff making his comments clear moments ago.urbing set of facts. it's alleged that this additional person has a background in russian intelligence and was involved in litigation in new york where there were allegations that he was involved in illegally hacking a rival company and publishing the results of that. i think whether this person has an intel background or not, the message was very clear from the trump campaign. they welcomed the help of the russian government. that message was certainly sent privately by donald trump jr. in those e-mails where he said he would love to get their help. but it was also sent very publicly by the president himself, speaking quite openly, saying, hey, russians, if you're listening, hack hillary clinton's e-mails, you'll be richly rewarded and indeed the russians have been rewarded. but plainly, this russian attorney, this other third party, if they were present, they were there to both deliver a message as well as to receive a message and plainly moscow understood only too well that this is

joining us now adam schiff. congressman, thanks for being here.ave a lot of things to talk to you about. this has just come out. have you had a chance to absorb this reporting? >> i have, yes. >> can you tell me if you think this is a significant advance in the story, if this is a serious development? >> it's a very serious development and i think we need to look at this in the chronology, and that is this goes back to june of last year just when the now president has essentially seized the republican nomination. if this article is correct his son gets an e-mail from somebody who helped the trump family do business in russia saying the russian government is helping your father get elected president. we have some damaging information. you should take this meeting. donald, jr. takes the meeting with this woman who's an advocate for the kremlin along with kushner and paul manafort. during that meeting she brings up the magnitsky act, which is a bill that provides sanctions on human right abusers in russia, something that putin hated. after that meeti

. >> shepard: we're hearing from the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. >> we are. as you can imagine, the democrats are having a field day about this. gives new fuel to the fire in their call for further investigations. adam schiff in a statement, part of which said "today's report that a former russian counter intelligence officer was also present in the meeting with donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort. if accurate, it adds another secret fact about this meeting. paints a portrait of deceit when it comes to the campaign officials and meadaries." they will hammer the trump white house over the head with this for as long as they can. it brings up something that lanny davis wrote a book about after his years with the clinton administration and all the scandals. lanny davis said, when you get yourself in a spot like this, you tell the truth, tell it early, tell it all and you tell it yourself. take the bad medicine and it's over. otherwise, it just continues to drip, drip, drip. at this point, shep, we're will into the drip, drip. >> shepard: th

quote, sleazy adam schiff.the totally biased congressman looking into "russia," spends all of his time on television pushing the dem loss excuse. what is with the president? >> i think his tweets are below the dignity of the office. one he might have thought was particularly funny. my impression was a character on "ghostbusters" that had just been slimed. the president is reduced to insults that you hear when you're in grade school. i think about the staff that has occupied that office in the past, and it troubles me to see this kind of thing going on. but it is what it is. i suppose it's a measure of the fact that the president views me as a threat and certainly has enhanced the budget with one that says, i'm with sleazy. >> what's been the reaction of your republican colleagues to the president of the united states calling it sleazy. >> just zegenerally, i think we all wish he would give up his twitter account or make sure there was adult supervision before he sends things out. we looked back and just before

adam schiff retweets. with respect, mr.mp, is how often you watch tv and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office. this conversation has been doing on sort of for the last few days about how the intelligence community seems united on the idea russia involved itself some way in the elections. whether any votes were changed or not. the president and closest to him continued to push back on that reality undermining the intelligence community. what's the solution to this in the end? >> look, aside from the bit about impugning adam schiff's character, it's remarkable that the president would not take this more seriously. russia just mounted the most successful, the boldest, most brazen covert influence operation in our history in order to skew the election successfully. and for him to take it so lightly, this is something that should be both a matter of concern for democrats and republicans for the former president and for the sitting president. for him to make light of this suggests to and for the si

adam schiff shot back with his own tweet. "with respect, mr. president, the problem is how often you watch tv, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office." >>> let's check back in with sal. >>> the east bay commute and the south bay and the north bay dash of the east bay tends to get busy first we will start with a look at the east shore freeway in case you were leaving vallejo and driving to the macarthur maze. right now, 19 minutes between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze. when you get to the bay bridge, there is some waiting to do. it's backed up for about a 15 minute delay before you make it onto the span. san francisco, northbound 101 looks good and soda southbound 101 if you are driving down the peninsula. no problems on 101 or 280. in the east bay, highway 4 is slow as you get out of antioch. you will see brake lights waiting for you on that trip through pittsburg and into bay point and concord. >>> another gorgeous day. temperatures ranging from the low 60s, 70s around the bay, mid- to upper- and

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yesterday even congressman adam schiff was asked, finally, about ukrainian-russian collusion. >> i understand hillary clinton lost and his was not as elaborate as the russian effort but would it have been acceptable for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainians? >> i think if you look at the politico article and it's a single article here, if you accept all the facts in the article, the scale of what the russians did is not comparable to anything in the article. it would be problematic to get any support from a foreign government. again, to compare the two is like comparing bank robbery with writing a check with unsufficient funds. both improper but a different degree of seriousness and involvement by a foreign government. >> sean: not comparable? it's far worse and president trump's attorney jay sekulow brought it up. >> opposition happen all the time and we know for a fact as reported extensively in a piecely politico the ukrainians traded information back and forth. the fact is the ukrainians at the same time were working with the dnc and the clinton campaign to give opposition rese

now, adam schiff, the top democrat on the committee and the house committee, just spoke to reporters about his concerns. this is what he said. >> we now know that the response that the president's son gave to the russians was that he would love it if they would provide damaging information about hillary clinton. rather than report this overture by the russian government to provide damaging information to intervene in the presidential election and a way to help his father, neither the president's son nor the campaign reported this information to the fbi. when it became obvious that the e-mails were being dumped, when it became obvious this was being done by the russian government, when our own intelligence community issued a statement in october affirming that this was being done by the ruians, did the trump campaign then disclose that, in fact, they had received an overture to receive damaging information? the answer, of course, is no, they didn't. >> now, notable, wolf, who is not by adam schiff's side was mike conaway who is the republican from texas who is leading the russia inves

top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff discussed the matter this morning. >> theof this issue is going to be we will want to have all participants in the meeting, any one who helped in organizing it. putting it together testify before the mm documents. any e-mails. it looks like, listening to, the president's son last night on fox and hearing his ler today that the defense is going to be, yes, we had an intent to collude with russia. we wanted to get the dirt, the russian government had in an effort to help elect donald trump. but we were deeply disappointed in getting it at that meeting. that's not much of a defense. i think, we need to look into whether there was any subsequent efforts, whether indeed we can rely on the representations about what happened at the meeting. because one thing we have seen over just the last several days we can't rely on anything that donald trump jr. has to say about this. because his story kept changing, he had to confront facts coming out. >> let me ask you, a new report that says the house and senate intelligence committees which

. >> i want to get some perspective on all of this with ranking congressman adam schiff. congressman, you heard about this report of this second meeting, it happened during a dinner where the president walked over to vladimir putin and they spoke during the g-20 summit. the white house is calling this perfectly normal and part of a president's duties, of course there wasn't an american translator there. what is your reaction to this. >> i don't think there's anything normal about the president having an hour-long meeting with vladimir putin outside anyone in the administration to know what the president said, what the president represented. . i would like to know, i think most americans would, did the president raise the issue of the sanctions that the president wants to do away with. did he talk about anywhere willingness to give back these -- so question have no idea what was said in the conversation, it's hard to imagine a conversation going on that long that involves superficial things, how's the grand kid, how's golf at mar-a-lago, an hour-long conversation inevitabl

that said, you heard adam schiff, the ranking member there say, we have some more questions for him. so, you know, the issue here is, we don't really know what adam -- what adam? what jared kushner told them behind closed doors. that could create problems that are totally invisible to us but that could have sort of longer tale to it. without question, yes. anytime you come up to capitol hill, you show yourself at least to be willing to do so, to answer questions, to testify, you're helping yourself. just depends now on what you say. >> and susan page of "usa today," if you lie to members of congress, even if not under oath that's a crime. >> what we're seeing happening yesterday is unfolding of a new chapter in this whole investigation. we're going to see principle figures, very close to president trump, coming up and being forced to answer questions under oath or not under oath in public or not including in the senate judiciary committee possibly tomorrow with paul manafort. >> and manu raju on capitol hill, monitoring what's going on? what are you hearing? we'll find him and get bac

congressman adam schiff argued that it, quote, adopts the fiction that the russians are a constructive partner on cyber security instead of the worst actor on the world stage. does he have a point? >> i think that we have to talk about cyber security not just with russia, but with everyone. and, look, you're always going to see the democrats are repeatedly criticizing the president. that's unfortunate. republicans are going to criticize democrats. that's unfortunate. but let's just look at the situation. you now have a russian who is in charge of counterterrorism in the united nations. that was a position that the secretary general gave russia. and you also see that from a cyber standpoint we need to get together with russia. we need to tell them what we think should happen, shouldn't happen and if we talk to them about it, hopefully, we can cut this out and get them to stop. it doesn't mean we ever take our eyes off the ball. it doesn't mean we ever trust russia. we can't trust russia and we won't ever trust russia. but you keep those that you don't trust closer so that you can always

and, yesterday, even congressman adam schiff was asked, finally, about ukrainian election collusion.ake a look. >> i understand hillary clinton lost. i understand this effort was not as elaborate as the russian effort but was it acceptable or wouldn't it have been acceptable for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainian government in this campaign? >> no, it would be appropriate for the democrats to accept help from the ukrainian government. if you look at the politico article and talking about a single article here. if you accept all the facts in the article, the scale of what the russians did is not comparable to anything in that article. it would be problematic to get any kind of support from a foreign government but, again, i think to compare the two is a bit like comparing bank robbery with writing a check with insufficient funds. both appropriate money from the bank improperly but a very different degree of seriousness and involvement in this case by a foreign government. >> sean: not comparable? it's far worse. president trump's attorney jay sekulow who will join us late

joining me now is adam schiff, ranking member of the house intelligence committee.saw the president's tweet. he wants to move forward in the face of putin's denial. what's your response? >> well, my response is, how can we really believe that he pressed putin hard when only the day before he was denying that we really knew that russia was responsible? what kind of tough negotiator -- and this is the way the president likes to portray himself -- goes into the negotiation, betraying his own position the day before, calling into question the probative nature of his own intelligence agencies? then saying we need to move on. i don't think we can move on, and i don't think that russia could be a partner in a cyber security unit. i think that would be dangerously naive for this country. if that's our best election defense, we might as well just mail our ballot boxes to moscow. i don't think that's an answer at all. >> i want to talk to cyber security in a minute. are you saying that the president is not telling the truth about what happened in that private meeting? >> i'm

thank you. >> all right, that was congressman adam schiff.democrat on the house intelligence committee. he represents california district. he says the information in these donald trump jr. e-mails is, quote, deeply disturbing. he said the intelligence committee will want to speak to everyone involved in that meeting with that russian lawyer. my political panel is here with me now to dissect this. amanda carpenter, let me start with you. one of the things that was very interesting is -- he suggested, i should say, that even if that meeting did not prove to be bountiful in terms of the research and damaging information about hillary clinton that had been promised to donald trump jr. that perhaps it was a trial run by the russian government to see how interested the trump campaign might be and, indeed, they seemed quite interested. >> that e-mail is problematic alone, but it is more problematic when you look at what happened after the e-mail. july 22nd russians dumped e-mails through wikileaks. july 25, donald trump stood before cameras in russi

the tweeted this about adam schiff. sleazy adam schiff, the totally biased congressman looking into, quote, russia, close quote, spends all of his time on television pushing the dem loss excuse. what was your reaction to that tweet from the president of the united states, slamming add amd schiff? >> i'm astonished because again, what the president is doing, to me, is demeaning the office of the presidency. this is not something that a president, any president, should be doing. he is demeaning the office, as well as i said, trying to be one of absolute authority. and, so, it concerns me that we have a president who is not putting the country first. he only looks at himself. that is a disturbing position for us to be in in the united states of america. and our allies are looking at that and they are questioning what's going on here. >> and he puts russia in quotes because he still isn't convinced that russia was indeed meddling in the u.s. presidential election despite all of the intelligence community top chiefs over the

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