host: congressman adam schiff, thank you for being our newsmaker this week. rep. schiff: thank you. host: we will continue with our roundtable with niall stanage of "the hill" newspaper, ryan lucas with "cq roll call." ryan lucas, i want to begin with this revamped effort in syria. some have called it an admission of failure of the original strategy. what did you hear from congressman adam schiff about how hard this new effort is going to be? ryan: i think that he acknowledged it is going to be an uphill battle. but the main accomplishment is that they have realized that the train and equip program, which congressman schiff said and that many outside of congress have said, didn't really have a chance to succeed. it was never a good idea. building a force from scratch was not going to work. scaling that down and using smaller groups with the right sort of support may be effective. it is basically building off of a model that they used with syrian kurds. u.s. air power helped deal the islamic state one of the worst defeats in the past year. host: tens of millions of dollars spent alre

ryan lucas has the first question. >> congressman schiff, thank you for talking to us today. wanted to start off with the announcement from the white house that it was essentially scrapping the train and equip program for syrian rebels. instead of training and equipping them, they are going to essentially provide information to vetted insurgent leaders and then small packages of equipment to then send back with them. so that they can kind of be force enhancers in syria. is this plan the way that the white house has outlined it -- is this something that you think would be more effective than the original program that the white house came up with? >> yes. it would be hard to imagine how it could be less effective given the small number of people who were successfully trained and equipped under that dod effort. so i do think it will be more successful. i think it will be far more efficient and effective to work with forces already on the ground and already demonstrating a will to fight. i think this is a change that is necessitated by the failure of the dod program but also make

schiff can answer that for you.ll complete our task -- >> let me just follow up -- >> the reason there's no question is that we don't know what we're looking for. we can't put an end date on it because we don't know what this committee is supposed to look for. apart from damaging hillary clinton, it has no reason for existence. >> if the reason for existence is to find out did hillary clinton -- did hillary clinton make a grievous error in not following up security complaints, how could she tell the various investigating committees that that was below her, that it never reached her level? that could be a legitimate reason. but why, then, do you call sid blumenthal and houma abedin and all of these other personal aides and non-aides? why have you focused so much on e-mails and not on the central question of why was the security failure at that consulate? >> well, we have focused on the central failure. we have focused on the security issues, and you'll see lots of questions about that on thursday. let me speak to mr.

schiff: yes. it would be hard to imagine how it could be less effective given the small number of people who were successfully trained and equipped under that dod effort. so i do think it will be more successful. i think it will be far more efficient and effective to work with forces already on the ground and already demonstrating a will to fight. i think this is a change that is necessitated by the failure of the dod program but also makes a lot more sense. host: congressman, from the beginning of this debate on how to aid syrian rebels, you have expressed concern about how to vet the individuals receiving aid. so as we go from recruiting and training to what is being called equip and enable, does it make the vetting process any easier? rep. schiff: well it doesn't make it any easier. but we do have relationships with some of the commanders of these units. we can witness what they are doing on the ground and we have been witnessing what they are doing on the ground. so i think we have both a good

of california, adam schiff served on the intelligence committee. linda sanchez and tammy duckworth will all be asking the questions of the former secretary of state. she is expected to be in that chair for eight hours. so we want to get your thoughts on that this morning and start dialing in. republicans 202-748-8001. democrats 202-748-8000. independents 202-748-8002. congressional correspondent with bloomberg news, set the scene. what's it like in there for you to be inside? >> well, it's kind of a building crescendo of the excitement here. the chairman has looked out to see what is limited to reporters and some ticketed aides and that sort of thing in the room. what is already and as early as 7:30 a long line of public people wanting to get in but without the press or government pass itself. it's turning into quite a spectacle already. >> so, billy house, what's it like for the print media inside there? what's your setup like? >> well, there's two wings of wall seats of about 18 reporters each on both sides. the vantage point for those reporters

. >>> plus benghazi committee member adam schiff will join me live. >>> and how was the head of the cia hacked by a high school student. that student infiltrates not only his e-mail account, but also the head of homeland security. who the hacker says is next. >>> good morning. strong numbers for two front-runners, donald trump and hillary clinton, according to our brand-new nbc/"wall street journal" poll, trump has the backing up 25% of republican primary voters. that, by the way, the highest support for donald trump in our poll since he jumped into the race, but ben carson, hess 'a close second with 22%, that is

>> congressman schiff, you voted for the iran nuclear deal. how worried are you that with tens of billions of dollars about to flow into iran, they're going to use that money to promote terror attacks against israel and others? >> i'm certainly concerned about it. i think some of the additional resources iran has, it's going to devote to a lot of the people we're fighting against, like hezbollah. at the same time, while i am concerned with iran that's better resourced, i'd be frankly even more concerned with an iran with a runaway nuclear program, which is what they had before the agreement, when they had 20,000 centrifuges spinning and about 12,000 kilos of enriched uranium. so rolling back their nuclear program, depriving them of the nuclear club were they could threaten israel, that to me is the most significant objective in the agreement. >> chairman royce, you owe potioned the nuclear deal. your reaction ton what the prime minister of israel just said? >> well, i think the fact that the russians are transferring $20 billion worth of comba

congressman schiff, welcome to the program. >> thanks. it's great to be with you. >> rose: where are we and where are we going? >> it's a great question. it's hard to say. all the other hearings planned this year were canceled once the hearing with secretary clinton were scheduled. initially there were going to be about 10 or 12 hearings, some with the defense secretary, head of the c.i.a., but those were all put off or canceled for good. so we're waiting to hear from the majority and, of course, we'll have to evaluate based on their plan going forward what that means in terms of our participation. there has been a debate all along about whether it makes sense for democrats to participate in what we view as a highly partisan exercised designed to attack the secretary. so we're going to have to see what they plan in the future and make a decision about that. >> rose: is it likely you will not go forward, democrats. >> our ranking member statement is we continue to participate for now. but a lot will spend depend where they intend to take t

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. >>> plus benghazi committee member adam schiff will join me live. >>> and how was the head of the cia hacked by a high school student. that student infiltrates not only his e-mail account, but also the head of homeland security. who the hacker says is next. >>> good morning. strong numbers for two front-runners, donald trump and hillary clinton, according to our brand-new nbc/"wall street journal" poll, trump has the backing up 25% of republican primary voters. that, by the way, the highest support for donald trump in our poll since he jumped into the race, but ben carson, hess 'a close second with 22%, that is within the margin of error. on the democratic side, hillary clinton has increased her lead over bernie sanders to 20 points. joe biden comes in third, though he's lost support in the last month, even as speculation about a presidential run reaches fever pitch. steve kornacki is here to break down the numbers. i know we get polls in, it seems every day, but pollser very exciting, in that they show a real glymph of what people are thinking. the summer of trump is over, but the fa

joining us now is congressman adam schiff, democrat of california.essman, i know it has been as long a day for you as it has been for anyone. thank you for being with us. >> oh, you bet. it's good to be with you. >> you and i have talked about this decision, about whether or not democrats should even be part of this process, were you glad you were in the room at that committee today? >> i was. and i have to say as someone who from the outset questioned whether we should participate at all in this, i think elijah cummings was right. it was important for us to be in the room. there were so many selective quotes from a.r.b. reports and e-mails. it was very important to have us there to be able to set the record straight. so yes, i think it was important that we be in the room tonight. >> do you think that anything was accomplished? this was an 11-hour hearing with one witness. a lot of people all over the country watched at least some of it if not all of it. did we learn anything through this process? >> i think we learned one thing, and that is notwith

. >> host: we have adam schiff, linda sanchez tammy duckworth. and if those names stick out as someone who was especially qualified to serve on this committee? >> guest: mr. schiff for instance the ranking member on the intelligence committee and ms. duckworth running for the senate so this is another opportunity for her to boost her profile. she's taking on senator mark kirk in illinois to elevate her profile a little bit there. mr. smith is a member of the armed services committee and so there are some serious names and some serious people for the democrats hope would bring a serious -- here and none of them have been critical of the gop select committee especially mr. schiff has suggested that maybe democrats might not stick with it. he floated the opportunity that democrats should pull out of the committee entirely which was some of the early speculation before this committee was named a lot of talk whether democrats should participate at all given me see this as a partisan witchhunt. ultimately they decided to stick with it because they figu

joining us now is congressman adam schiff, democrat of california.ongressman, i know it has been as long a day for you as it has been for anyone. thank you for being with us. >> oh, you bet. it's good to be with you. >> you and i have talked about this decision, about whether or not democrats should even be part of this process, were you glad you were in the room at that committee today? >> i was. and i have to say as someone who from the outset questioned whether we should participate at all in this, i think elijah cummings was right. it was important for us to be in the room. there were so many collective quotes from a.r.b. reports and e-mails. it was very important to have us there to be able to set the record straight. so yes, i think it was important that we be in the room tonight. >> do you think that anything was accomplished? this was an 11-hour hearing with one witness. a lot of people all over the country watched at least some of it if not all of it. did we learn anything through this process? >> i think we learned one thing, and that is no

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visit ncicap.org] >> on newsmakers, congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the intelligence committeealks about arming syrian rebels in the fight against isis. he is also a member of the benghazi committee and will preview the hearing in which hillary clinton is scheduled to testify. "newsmakers" sunday on c-span. on "q&a"unday night gary hart on his new book "the republic of conscience, comparing our current government ." used the: founders language of the ancient republic, greece and rome, and warned against corruption. their definition was not bribery or quid pro quo, money under the table, it was putting special interest ahead of the common good. by that definition, washington today is a massively corrupt place. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. every first lady should do something in this position to help with things she cares about. i think that everything in the white house should be the best. the entertainment that is given here. the art is chosen. our feelings are chosen. i think it is good in a world weather is quite enough to divide people, we sho

check in with the new top members of the house intelligence committee devin nunes and adam schiff about the benghazi. paul rebound as speaker. and get update on war on terror. plus we'll have reporters' roundtable all ahead on "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs good morning welcome to "face the nation" i'm john dickerson. we have new cbs news battleground tracker poll results from the key primary states. in the republican race it's all about donald trump in new hampshire. where as 38% he leads the pack ben carson is next with 12% followed by rest of the field in single digits. in south carolina, the story is the same, trump is ahead of carson by almost 20 percentage points with the rest of the field ted cruz, marco rubio and jeb bush all in single digits. everyone else coming in behind them. but in iowa republican race has tightened donald trump and ben carson are tied for first place at 27%. ted cruz only other candidate to earn double digits at 12%. marco rubio comes in at nine the rest of the field is at 6% or less. we'll have the numbers in the democratic race coming up

congressman schiff is still with us. congressman, this is pretty awkward to say the least very embarrassing if in fact the private e-mail accounts were hacked by this individual. >> yes. and it's more than embarrassing. it's very much, i think, a risk for these individuals to have their private accounts hacked into. even if it's not classified information, they still may have personal things that they don't want out in the public ethosphere. so it's of grave concern. i think it highlights, wolf, that none of us are really safe in this environment. if you're a major american company and you haven't been hacked yet, you have you just don't know it yet. and i think all of our personal e-mail is really vulnerable to this kind of hacking. so it's a grave risk. >> so should people who have sensitive information whether the legislative branch like you or the executive branch no longer have any private g-mail or aol or yahoo or any kind of accounts right now? >> well, you know, i think as a practical matter we have to. we have p

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i'll speak with congressman adam schiff of the intelligence committee. and our correspondents analysts and guests will have full coverage of the day's top stories. let's begin with syria. a massive russian attack at a close encounter between u.s. and russian warplanes. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is joining us with the latest. barbara, rebel group backed by the u.s. says russia bombed them. >> wolf right off the bat take a look at this video. cnn cannot independently confirm this but this is video said to be from a moderate rebel group on the ground in syria suffering from a russian air attack. the violence is unmistakable. there is at this point we are told no reason to believe that this video is other than what it is a moderate rebel group backed by the united states under attack from the russians. all of this comes, wolf as the violence has seriously picked up in the last 24 hours. as you say russian warships in the caspian have launched withering naval attacks, cruise missile attacks against targets in syria. and at the same time russian

schiff, because there is no prosecution. there's a very big difference between a prosecution where you already have reached a conclusion and you're just trying to prove it to people. this is an investigation which is why it's so sad that nowhere in that stack that you just put up there were the e-mails of secretary clinton, the e-mails of the ambassador, 50,000 pages worth of documents, eyewitnesses, that's the real tragedy. to the family and the friends. when you're told there have been seven previous investigations and an arv, you should immediately ask "why did you miss so many witnesses? why did you miss so many documents?" this is not a prosecution, mr. schiff. you and i are both familiar with them. i've reached no conclusions and i would advise you to not reach any conclusions, either, until we reach the end. there are 20 more witnesses so i'll agree not to reach any conclusions if you'll do the same. with that, madam secretary, regardless of where he ranked in the order of advisors, it is indisputed that a significant

schiff. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, we're almost at the end of the first round of questions. i'll have an opportunity before we have a break just to let you know where we are in the scheme of things. so i want to take a moment to think about what we've covered in this first round. in particular, comment on where this began with the chairman's statement. the chairman said at the outset of the hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don't know the truth. that this is the first investigation we've ever had. the reality is, we've had eight investigations. we've gone through this endlessly. and if you just look at the docume docume documentary record, we have the arb report. we have the report of the armed services committee led by republican buck mckeon which debunked the standdown order allegation. we

schiff, because there is no prosecution. there's a very big difference between a prosecution where you already have reached a conclusion and you're just trying to prove it to people. this is an investigation which is why it's so sad that nowhere in that stack that you just put up there were the e-mails of secretary clinton, the e-mails of the ambassador, 50,000 pages worth of documents, eyewitnesses, that's the real tragedy. to the family and the friends. when you're told there have been seven previous investigations and an arv, you should immediately ask "why did you miss so many witnesses? why did you miss so many documents?" this is not a prosecution, mr. schiff. you and i are both familiar with them. i've reached no conclusions and i would advise you to not reach any conclusions, either, until we reach the end. there are 20 more witnesses so i'll agree not to reach any conclusions if you'll do the same. with that, madam secretary, regardless of where he ranked in the order of advisors, it is indisputed that a significant

schiff. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam secretary, we're almost at the end of the first round of questions. i will have an opportunity then, i think the chairman will before we have a break just to let you know where we are in the scheme of things. so i want to take a moment to think about what we've covered in this first round. in particular, comment on where this began with the chairman's statement. the chairman said, at the outset of hearing that the american people are entitled to the truth. the truth about what happened in benghazi. the truth about the security there. the truth about what happened after the attack. the implication of this of course is that the american people don't know the truth. that this is the first investigation we've ever had. the reality is we have had eight investigations. we've gone through this endlessly, and, if you just look at the documentary record, we have the arb report. we have the report of the armed services committee led by republican buck mckeon, which debunked the stand-down

adam schiff says by staying on, they would lend legitimacy in his words had none. they say they do plan to attend the questioning tomorrow. hillary clinton appears before that committee. they say they are going to ensure the proceedings are fair. >>> justin trudeau says he will honor a campaign pledge in the bombing campaign against isis, trudeau and president obama's decision to pull six canadian fighter jets from the battlefield, canada will provide humanitarian and training aid in syria and iraq. >>> syrian president bashar al-assad in moscow, meeting with russian state vladmir putin a. kremlin spokesperson called terrorist extremist groups. the u.s. has expressed concern that the main interest if putting military planes in syria is defending the assad regime against syrian rebel fighters. the goal the u.s. is not just going after isis. >> new details in kunduz, afghanistan, that kill 22 staff members and patients. the fork times reporting military investigators believe american and afghan forces unfamiliar with the area and with no experience working together m

california democrat, adam schiff noticed the committee has canceled every hearing the past nine months except for this one. >> i w wder if you would looooto comment on what it is like to be the subject of an allegation that you deliberately interfered with security that cost the life of a friend. >> congressman, it is a very personally painful accusation. it has been rejected and disproven by nonpartisan, dispassionate investigators, but nevertheless, having it continue to be bandied around is -- is deeply distressing to me. you know, i have, would imagine i thought more about what happened than all of you put together. clinton seems determined not to show the kind of anger that makes greaeafodder for negative campaign ads. any time her voice raises she quickly self corrects. we are moving into hour nine of the hearing, scott and shows no sign of wrapping up soon. >> nancy cordes, outside the aring room. thanks. also watching the hearing today was our cbs news political john dickerson. of "face the nation." what was your impreseson? >> nevev going to be a greatatay for her. not a porti