schiff: it's not.i am asking you sitting here today whether you are aware of a factual predicate to investigate liz cheney. ms. bondi: nobody has asked me to investigate liz cheney. sen. schiff: the president called for a publicly. you are aware of that. ms. bondi: nobody had asked me -- do you know what we should be worried about? in california, robberies are 87% higher than the national average. that is what i want to focus on. you are suggesting by your nonanswer you don't have the independence to say no to the president. if you are going to be a good attorney general you need to be able to pay -- tell hard truths to the president. let me start with an easy truth that you could speak to the president. can you tell him that donald trump lost the 2020 election? do you have the independence, the gravitas, the intentions -- intestinal fortitude to say donald trump, you lost the 2020 election? can you tell us that here today? ms. bondi: i can tell you i won't play politics. you are trying to engage me in

chair grassley: senator schiff. sen. schiff: mr. patel, you are asked about the j6 choir of inmates who saw you promoted, and here is what you said, "i didn't have anything to do with the recording. i didn't have anything to do with the recording. " do you stand by the testimony? mr. patel: what i said is i didn't do the recording. sen. welch: you said you didn't have anything to do with the recording, which is interesting because here is what you told steve bannon on his podcast. "what we thought would be cool is if we captured that audio, and the left of course, had the greatest president, president donald j. trump, recite the pledge of allegiance. we went to the courtier, recorded it digitized it and mastered it and released the sorrow." "we, we we." if you had nothing to do with it, why did you tell steve that it all his listeners that you did? mr. patel: that's why it says we, as you highlighted. sen. schiff: when you say "we," that includes you, doesn't it? mr. patel: not in every instance. sen. schiff: [laughs] that's new. so

so adam schiff knows this is a lie. look, i think it won't take long before the united states senate, the democrat senators included, you can see it there today, that they are going to get sick of adam schiff and they will be sad that he entered the u.s. senate. >> will: you mentioned the lack of trust in the fbi is that an all-time low. we have that number that was brought up today by kash patel. 41%. the number of american people that today have faith, confidence in the fbi. hopefully that can be restored with kash patel. thinking so much for being with us today. >> thanks. >> will: one hour. that is about it. one hour, maybe two. sean duffy was on the job before that tragic accident last night in d.c. two and a half days for secretary of defense pete hegseth, highlighting the necessity to get president trump cabinet picks confirmed immediately. so in that vein, kash patel was not the only big hearing today. >> you may here lies and smearing of my loyalty and my love for my country. those who oppose my domination impl

i talked to your colleague, senator schiff, about it.a couple of things we just saw in the oval office, including pardons for 1500 january 6th insurrectionists. trump even commuted the sentence of stewart rhodes, the leader of the oath keepers, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy. what was your reaction as you watched that happen in the oval office? >> i mean, this is the most unconscionable act of the day. it could go down as the most unconscionable act of this year. listen, we are a democracy. we are a peaceful democracy, the bedrock that has kept us standing for 240 years is that we don't endorse violence as a means to grab power. that's what those protesters, that's what those rioters were doing. they were storming the capitol, beating police officers over the head with flagpoles in order to seize power for their leader, and by endorsing, endorsing and celebrating their actions today by making sure that they won't be accountable for what they did, it guarantees that it will happen again. and by the way, it might not be at a nat

joining me now is democratic senator adam schiff of california. he received a preemptive pardon from president biden today. he also attended tonight's today's inauguration. there is so much i want to get to you to get to with you, senator schiff. i just have to start. i mean, in the last hour, donald trump was in the oval office, which i see as a choice and just pardoned 1500 people convicted for the attack on our capitol. you did so much important work on the january 6th committee. you have never held back in talking about the impact of this on our country. what what is going through your head right now? >> it's obscene. >> it's a grotesque display of his new power as president to pardon these 15 or 1600 people, which i have to imagine includes people that committed violent assaults on law enforcement. it certainly includes, apparently, one of the leaders of the proud boys, rather fitting, sadly, that among his very first acts in office is to give a pardon to a white nationalist leader like that. so hard to imagine that we were sitting in the cap

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chair grassley: senator schiff. sen. schiff: mr. patel, you are asked about the j6 choir of inmates who saw you promoted, and here is what you said, "i didn't have anything to do with the recording. i didn't have anything to do with the recording. " do you stand by the testimony? mr. patel: what i said is i didn't do the recording. sen. welch: you said you didn't have anything to do with the recording, which is interesting because here is what you told steve bannon on his podcast. "what we thought would be cool is if we captured that audio, and the left of course, had the greatest president, president donald j. trump, recite the pledge of allegiance. we went to the courtier, recorded it digitized it and mastered it and released the sorrow." "we, we we." if you had nothing to do with it, why did you tell steve that it all his listeners that you did? mr. patel: that's why it says we, as you highlighted. sen. schiff: when you say "we," that includes you, doesn't it? mr. patel: not in every instance. sen. schiff: [laughs] that's new. so

adam schiff asked pam bondi weather or not she will investigate liz cheney and jack smith. democrats, the two different tool of investigation has been punishment, he considers investigation and punishment. the democrats and the previous administration went beyond investigation, he went to charges that could not be backed up like you pointed out in good faith. he tipped the hand there of how he sees the doj and how he thinks it should be used to weapon eyes and hopes it's not used against him. >> martha: or remarkable schiff never had a moment of saying, i know i said the president will be indicted and is the evidence that was coming -- conclusive, and he never had a moment to say i felt something was there that was not found by the investigation, by this proceeding. it would be nice to see more of that in the country, a little bit more understanding when we fall short and it would be a think except her to be a well. good to see you! >> looking forward to see you 4:00 next week. >> martha: thank you so much. will cain joining us at 4:00 p.m. every day starting tuesday, looki

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he has just the other day called adam schiff scum. he also said that he was the enemy within and should be in jail. what do you make of that outreach? >> yeah, definitely. >> not expected, but i think anytime we can see bipartisanship, especially in a time of natural disaster, is very important. but of course, trump going in this morning to california and he's been very critical of many of the democrats in that state, including newsom. and of course, wildfire management isn't the only criticism he's had of him. he's been very hard on him on elections, too. you know, here in ohio, we have free and fair elections. it's very easy to vote. it's very hard to cheat. and we count our votes very quickly. california, not so much. i mean, they were still counting into december. they mail out tens of millions of ballots that aren't even requested. and so he's hit newsom very hard on this. we saw trump work very well with newsom in certain instances during that first administration. i think we'll continue to see the same, but it may not look the

it was schiff. schiff, hillary, the whole group. you know what they should. schiff is just a bad. sick guy. and he went to biden and he demanded a pardon because he thought he did something he knew he did. >> thompson wanted one. the chairman of that committee. >> bennie thompson. destroyed, destroyed along with that unselect committee, destroyed all of the work that took place over two years. you know why it showed that i was right. >> we're back with the 45th and 47th president of the united states right after the break. >> ge ivanova, powers america every day as the leading american energy manufacturer, we've never stopped building the technologies that drive today's economy and define the future of energy. we know an abundant, independent and secure energy system starts here at home. it's why we're investing millions in american manufacturing and creating thousands of new jobs. together, we will lead a new era of energy for america and the world. ge ivanova. >> all hands on deck. >> sometimes justice isn't black and white. >> i want to win here. no different than you might ree

i talked to senator schiff about oversight. much is he going to be focused on oversight versus actually trying to govern, potentially work across the aisle. >> look, i think democrats in the senate and the house, they want to find ways to govern because they want wins so they too can potentially take back power in the midterm election. however, i think the reality of the situation is that some of the things they won't be able to come together on when it comes to the house specifically because of mike johnson's aggressive ways of wanting to take up donald trump's agenda. >> all right, you guys. great conversation. very spirited. thank you so much to kick off the new year that is all for today. thank you for watching. we'll be back next week, because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." we'll be back next week, because if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪

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california senator adam schiff. he asked him to travel along to visit california's disaster zones. today, schiff's office conveyed the senator's regrets that he is unable to join the president in los angeles due to scheduled nomination votes. let's get right to cnn's alayna treene live at the white house. look, i didn't have an invitation to adam schiff on the bingo card for donald trump haha. >> no, i was just as surprised when i learned this. when i spoke to. >> a spokesperson in adam. schiff's office and they had confirmed that donald trump did invite him, that he couldn't come today because of votes. i was just as shocked as you, especially when you consider just a couple of days ago, john, remember, donald trump brought adam schiff up and called him scum from behind the resolute desk while talking to reporters in the oval office. and so, look, it's very clear that people are trying to make this about the communities that have been affected. those in asheville where he is going to visit first today in north carolina, and then later, of course, in los angeles that has been ravag

and then adam schiff sworn in as a u.s. senator from california will hear about his goals for the 6 year term and a fisherman docked in san francisco was caught with more than 2000 pounds of unlawfully caught fish according >> now at four-thirty it's official. adam schiff has been sworn in as california's newest a u.s. senator for the next 60 years. and capitol correspondent eytan bala spoke one-on-one with schiff about his goals and he shares what schiff is saying about finding common ground. >> with president elect trump. so help you god. >> congratulations, senator. >> with democrat adam schiff has officially been sworn in as california's new u.s. senator for the full 6 year term. we're ready for the new session to get to work. shift spoke one-on-one with us before taking the oath he had just learned he will serve on the judiciary, agriculture, nutrition and forestry environment and public works and small business and entrepreneurship committee. but top of his mind, the cost of living in california. it's affordable housi

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it's just something that was by adam schiff. we al don't have adam schiff who wrote the report. he said in a press conference, i'm not going to, i will send staff to do that. he's not going to but to me if he was willing to, he would come begging to us. just 19 minutes on inauguration day 2017 the washington post ran the headline campaign to impeach the president has begun. tweeted in january 2017 the coup started and the impeachment will start ultimately. if we don't impeach the president he will get reelected. you know what's happening, here we go, why did everything that i said up to this point for the judiciary committee we spent two and a half weeks before the hearing was held under clinton. 2 and a half weeks. we didn't even find your names out until less than 48 hours ago. i don't know what we are playing hide the ball on it, it's pretty easy what you're going to say. we can't get that straight. what are we doing for the next two weeks? i have no idea. nothing else, if we are going to simply not have fact witnesses, we are the rubber stamp hiding out back. the very rubber

adam schiff has been sworn in as california's newest us under for the next 6 years.ur capitol correspondent it wallace spoke one-on-one with schiff about his goals and shares. what schiff is saying about finding common ground with president elect donald trump. so help you god. >> congratulations, senator. >> with democrat adam schiff has officially been sworn in as california's new u.s. senator for the full 6 year term. we're ready for the new session to get to work. shift spoke one-on-one with us before taking the oath he had just learned he will serve on the judiciary, agriculture, nutrition and forestry environment and public works and small business and entrepreneurship committee. but top of his mind, the cost of living in california. it's affordable housing crisis. we nominate housing and we have to change that. and we not want families to be able to get into their first >> home and get into the dream home. i want people afford their rent. i want to attack the scourge of homelessness in all comes back to the problem of not supply. so i'm going to be looking in t

president trump: i was told schiff would travel with us to california. i wasn't thrilled to be honest with you. i saw him last night on television and it looked like he got hit with a baseball bat or something. what happened to him? something happened to him. looked like he got hit or beat around. i'll ask caroline to find out what happened to him. if he wanted to come out, i would have done that but i don't know. somebody said he wanted to come on the plane but i think he's staying back for the votes. there's some pretty good votes going on. reporter: president, what is your time line to getting rid of fema? president trump: for this one? reporter: you possibly looked at getting rid of fema. president trump: here you're talking about, to start, we'll start immediately time line. and to finish, it's going to be a period of time, you know. people are also rebuilding their houses. how long does it take to build a house, it takes some time. and i want them to build houses bigger, better, nicer than they had before so they can have -- at least they get somet

maria: attorney general nominee pam bondi clashing with california senator adam schiff during day onermation hearing yesterday bondi questioned the weaponization of the department of justice, the surge of crime under the biden administration. >> i want you to talk to tennesseean to say californians to all americans about what you are going to do to get this crime rate down in this country. >> despite the questions from senator schiff i look forward to working with you and the state of california, to do everything we can, to fight violent crime in california. and you know as well i, that crime is only going through the roof now, after these forest fires you are going to have looting you are going to have price-gouging you are going to have so many things, that i have dealt he with in the state of florida and i am committed to working with -- with california just as much as i am committed to working with you senator kennedy and tragedy that just took place in louisiana, but we've got to ensure if i am confirmed that everyone in this country is safe. joining me tennessee the senator mars

on the hearings last week, senator adam schiff was important to be clear about what you will do with cheney. tell me if liz cheney should be worried. >> are you aware of factual b base? >> senator, it's hypothetical and i'm not going to answer t that. >> liz cheney -- do you know what we should be worried about? in california right now -- >> what i can tell you is i will never play politics, your in trying to engage me in a gotcha. with any ongoing investigation like you did devin nunes live -- this body nor you like congress. >> there are so many relevant issues that they seem obsessed with liz cheney, are you investigating? >> we are going to do a look back four to six human sources we learned at the capital in 2021, 17 import in the white house and to work past to be there by the fbi. we think we need to know more about that. what was interesting is it's almost like adam schiff when you're a kid did something wrong and you say, that, i got a friend in adam schiff wanted to ask himself but president trump is not going to retaliate. pam bondi and kash patel, they will not retaliate,

schiff, mr. scott of florida. mr. sheehy. please raise your right hand. you solemnly swear that you support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god. >> you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god. congratulations. [applause] >> the clerk will call the names of the next group. ms. warden, mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker. thank you. thank you. thank you predicate from everyone ready? please raise your right hand. you solemnly swear it will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. that you take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion. you w

schiff, mr. scott of florida, mr. sheehy. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which you are about to enter, so help you god? the senators: i do. the vice president: congratulations, senators. the vice president: the clerk will call the names of the next group. the clerk: ms. slotkin, ms. warren, mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker. the vice president: please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that you will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that you take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that you will well and faithfully discharge the

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schiff: i assume, mr.din, your response will not depend on whether disaster strike as red state or blue state, you will equally work to speed relief to those americans affected? mr. zeldin: yes, senator, does not matter what kind of a state you're from, all 50 states are going to be of the highest importance regardless of where disaster ever strikes anywhere in america. sen. schiff: thank you. let me touch on one other major issue we discussed yesterday. that's the tijuana river pollution crisis. this crisis has brought immense industrial waste and raw sewage over the border from new mexico to california posing serious environmental and public health challenges to san diego and imperial county. we've had beaches shut down. we've had seal training facilities deeply impacted and coast guard and border personnel have routinely reported suffering from infections and gastrointestinal illnesses. thanks to the work of senator padilla and representative scott peters and others, we were able to secure $250 million

. >> ainsley: when adam schiff was asking about liz cheney, she said you should be worried about theate in california. and mazie hirono said i tried to meet with you and you wouldn't take my meeting, what stood out for you, laura? >> laura: again, adam schiff, of course now senator of a state that is losing population, suffering from incompetent leadership, that is crime ridden, overrun with illegal aliens, can't imagine to prepare when they know severe winds are going to present massive danger to entire communities, no preparation in place and adam schiff spends his time focusing with pam bondi on the 2020 election and whether she's going to be donald trump's hifnchman against liz cheney. pam bondi was attorney general of one of the most successful states in the united states and adam schiff represents one of the states most in crisis. story of donald trump. donald trump representing people's interest and has not created a single job or saved a single life, that is the truth and pam bondi stellar as was marco rubio, pete hegseth, it is c competence versus total lack of -- you were t

this is what the incoming california senator adam schiff had to say.s. >> my initial understanding, the reservoir that the palisades were drawing on the 3 million-gallon reservoir were full at the initiation of the fires but their intended and they have the capacity to put out homes that may have multiple houses not of the whole town is up in flames. anita: i think the los angeles times had printed something this is a picture of the reservoir from the los angeles times they don't exactly look for this is the incoming california senator adam schiff maybe you should spend more time on the state of california rather than going after incoming president trump. >> adam schiff has never allowed fax to get in the way of his narrative he is trying to spin it like gavin newsom instead of dealing with the facts. i find it fascinating young law enforcement in the mayor and others saying a tolerance policy why didn't have zero-tolerance policies before that in the building and the permitting process, why didn't they do that and glad they're doing it now but i hope

is a hack move especially from a schiff, who targeted kash to begin with. the prison of two ideas, they tried to shoehorn you into this framework where there is only two choices and you have to play along. but you don't have to play along. you can just say, do you have a smarter question? do you have a smarter question? i love a smart question. because how -- yes or no? it's so stupid. it's so stupid. i love these hearings because, a, i couldn't get anything exciting out of it today which meant it was good, but also this is like hollywood makes these movies where the hero faces the adversary on their own turf, the adversary that tormented them. this is like reality. you are seeing what's his face, adam schiff, and kash together. kash owned him. it is like the ultimate hero thing. the guy who gets tormented by the fbi is going to be taken over the fbi. this is not a normal transfer of power. this is an actual transfer of power. and this is why, you know, you may not like or love some of the things these people do, but you've got to take the whole package bec

i mean adam schiff trump took a bullet for this country. looks like he is always sitting on a vibrating one. >> too much. >> greg: not enough. >> k it looks like a mad scientist that moonlights in a neil diamond cover ban. just a freak. >> greg: something wrong with him i don't know what that is. >> rob bryden? maybe there was something wrong with them so i don't want to make fun of them i will just do that at the break. kat, i know this is an incredibly shallow segment but i break shallowness. let's be honest, we talk about this, we are bigoted against certain types of people. aren't weak, kat? >> except now i am superfast and i am still hot. [laughter] [applause] >> greg: i will complement you here in the 1970s well before the internet you could buy a hot and pregnant magazine. it was always behind the counter. >> don't i know it. >> greg: you would be on the cover hot and pregnant. [laughter] >> i hope or career choices would say no. >> the idea that there is no hot liberal i mean hollywood is full of hot liberal people. also, to me i of

schiff: i still want to get back to my question, though.ey are gone, who is going to do that work? mrs. rollins: sir, we don't know , first of all, who "they" are. we all throw numbers around like 40%, 50%, 60%. just don't know. as these processes and programs are being implemented with the full support of the majority of americans i think that we, as the leaders in agriculture, myself as the leader in usda, others on the committee, that we will work together to understand and hopefully solve for some of these problems. the cattle will have to be milked, but if we have a mass deportation program underway then there is a lot of work we need to do through the labor department, with lori chavez, and working with congress, to solve this through our current labor programs that are already on the books. sen. schiff: let me ask one another related question on this topic, and that is, if we deport a large percentage of our farm workforce, farm labor is going to be scarce. isn't that inevitably going to push up food prices? and if so, isn't that in

. >> on behalf of the share, senator schiff. sen. schiff: thank you, mr. chair. it's been suggested, ms. bondi, by a number of my colleagues that the concern democrats have you are friends with the president. that's not our concern. it's not our concern that you are loyal to the former president. president has a right to choose people who he believes will be loyal to him. our concern comes when that loyalty to the president conflicts with your duty, conflicts with the constitution, conflicts with your oath. our questions have been designed to try to ascertain what you will do when that inevitable conflict arises. you may say you believe that conflict will never come, but every day, week, month, and year of the first trump administration demonstrated that conflict will come. jeff sessions may not have believed it would come to him t came to him. bill barr may not believe it would come to him, it came to him. it came to everyone. it will come to you. what do you in that moment will define your attorney generalship, your public service, everything you have done up t

joining me now is democratic senator adam schiff of california.elcome back to "meet the press." >> great to be with you. >> it's great to have you here in-person. thank you for joining us. i want to start on president trump's sweeping pardons of the january 6th convicts. when he was on the campaign trail he said he was going to look at each by a case to case basis. he also never ruled out pardoning those who had criminal convictionons, who pleaded guil to assaulting police officers, for example. were you surprised by these blanket pardons, senator? >> i don't know if i can say that i was surprised, but i was certainly appalleled by them ani was glad to hear senator graham share that concern over pardoning people who violently attacked police and beat them, bear sprayed them, crushed them in doorways, people who were utterly unrepentant for assaulting law enforcement. this not only is a terrible additional injury to those law enforcement officers, but also this was a crime that was committed in furtherance of trying to stop the transfer of power af

we also don't have adam schiff, who wrote the report. he said yesterday in a press conference, "i'm not going to. i'll send staff to do that." he's not going to. but, you know, to me, if he was wanting to, he'd come begging to us. but, you know, here's the problem. it sums it up very simply like this. just 19 minutes after noon on inauguration day, 2017, "the washington post" ran the headline, "the campaign to impeach the president has begun." mark zaid, who would later become the attorney for the infamous whistleblower, tweeted in january 2017, "the coup has started." the impeachment will follow ultimately. and in may of this year, al green says, "if we don't impeach the president, he'll get reelected." you want to know what's happening? here we go. why did everything that i say up to this point about no fact witnesses, nothing for the judiciary committee, we spent 2 and a half weeks before this hearing was even held under clinton -- two and a half weeks. we didn't even find your names out until less than 48 hours ago. i don't know what

now this california senator adam schiff will not rule out the possibility of investigating trump duringrm. watch. we keep a focus on trying to get for the country but a lot will depending on how he chooses to governor if he violates the law and abuses his office we will viring rowsly push back, stand up to them as we had to do during his first term in office. but my priority is to try to get things done for my california constituents, realizing, though, they also expect me to stand up to him when he attacks the constitution or their freedom. stuart: that's kind of rich isn't it senator masha blackburn republican from tennessee joins me now. i don't have a specific question madam senator but i want you to respond to senator adam schiff. >> and stuart, here is the guy who does not have respect for the rule of law. and who violated his position as chairman of the committee so subpoena phone calls with journalist, records, and when after the top republican on the house intel committee. and he would go on tv adam schiff would go on tv and would spread all of this russia collusion hoax for ye