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

schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- alsobrooks, baldwin, bennet, blumenthal, blunt rochester, booker, cantwell, fetterman, gallego, gillibrand, hassan, heinrich, hickenlooper, hirono, kaine, kim, king, klobuchar, lujan, markey, merkley, murphy, murray, ossoff, peters, reed, rosen, sanders, schatz, schiff, schumer, shaheen, van hollen, warren, wyden. senators voting in the negative -- banks, barrasso, blackburn, budd, cotton, cramer, crapo, cruz, curtis, daines, ernst, fischer, graham, grassley, hoeven, husted, hyde-smith, johnson, justice, lankford, leigh, mccormick, moody, moran, moreno, mullin, paul, ricketts, risch, rounds, scott of florida, scott of south carolina, sheehy, thune, tillis, wicker, young. mr. marshall, no. ms. smith, aye. mr. sullivan, no. mr. mcconnell, no. ms. mur

schiff: thank you. there wasn't a finer law enforcement agency that i worked for at that time, nor have i witnessed in the 30 years since than the f.b.i. but inside that building right now, there is a purge going on. inside that building f.b.i. agents who have dedicated their careers to protecting the public are being purged from their offices. thousands of f.b.i. agents have been sent questionnaires asking them about their work on the january 6 investigations. and let's just take a moment to understand what that's all about. on january 6, a violent mob attacked the capitol, beat police officers, bear sprayed them, gouged them in the service of an even bigger crime which was stopping the peaceful transfer of power. not only were these agents who are being purged assigned those cases and did their assignments, but they did so in a righteous prosecution against those involved in attacking police and attacking the peaceful transfer of power. but they're being purged. and the man that they would have head t

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remember, schiff actually got one.ning me now is wisconsin senator ron johnson senator why oh why is adam schiff so worried about kash patel? >> adam schiff is afraid of the truth, is he a habitual liar, talk about a political hack. he is one but now unfortunately a u.s. senator. i fully expect kash patel, first of all, to be transparent, which obviously fbi and the department of justice was not under president biden. the american people deserve the truth and we're going to work very closely with kash patel to give the american people the truth. to expose all the corruption corruption within the fbi, maybe the department of justice. this can't go on. we are going to return integrity restore integrity to the fbi. that's what kash's mission. he told me that prior to the confirmation hearing. he wanted to restore credibility to the fbi. send agents out to the field. make prosecutorial decisions out there outside the politics of washington, d.c. return to a single system of justice. one for all americans. >> laura: hunter

joining me now is senator adam schiff, democrat of california. the fbi director? >> well. >> here's a. guy who made. >> millions doing some kind of consultation, some kind of work for this chinese communist party backed business entity. and we don't know what he did, what he's. >> getting paid for. >> that's a. >> lot of money. and not. >> just this. chinese communist party backed company, but he also did consulting. >> work for. >> something called the. >> czechoslovak group. >> which has done propaganda for the kremlin. so how much. >> did. >> he get paid by them, and what did he do for them that. >> he got. >> paid for? these are the kind of things you would hope to know about a nominee for high office. >> particularly the director. >> of the fbi, that might be asked to look into kremlin propaganda operations in. >> the us. >> or chinese communist party. backed firms employing forced. >> labor or child labor. so we ought. >> to know the answers. and on top of the recent. >> whistleblower allegations that he may have. >> lied to our. >> committ

and by the way, that that labeling of adam schiff was not just a message to adam schiff.to anybody who would possibly criticize president trump. on top of that, however, you make a very good point, which is that the fbi d.o.j. is largely comprised of extremely hardworking, experienced, professional personnel, and a lot of them are going to flee for the exits. they're not going to stay around with the specter of kash patel and them necessarily being on his bad side and then being targeted by him as well. and so we're going to have some of our best talent leaving the doj and fbi. and one other collateral piece of damage is that is that our allies, our friends, partners and allies around the world who regularly share intelligence with the likes of the cia, the fbi and others are going to stop doing that because they don't want this information necessarily to get in the hands of folks like kash patel and. >> is really important. this is really important. we have we have allies we work with on all sorts of things. some of them are nato, some of them are norad. some of them are

senator, why, oh, why ism adam schiff so worried about kash patel?adam schiff does afraid of the truth because he is a habitual liar. talk about ae bu political hackt has one but unfortunatelory nowa u.s. senator. i fully expect kash patel, first of all, to be transparent andeo fbpli was not underly president biden. we will work closely withh. kash patel to give the americane people the truth. to expose all of the corruption in the partisanship within thets fbi and maybe even the department of justice. this can't go on. we will return integrity and. restore integrity at the fbi. that is kash's mission and toldw me in his private confirmation hearing. he wants to return integrity to the fbi. makesend agents out to the fiel, make prosecutorial decisions out there outside of the politics of washington, d.c.,, return to a single system of justice for all americans. >> laura b: hunter biden, the biden gravy train, and all of the things we know are given short trip by the previous administration. the pardons, they sprinkle the pardons around including adam

senator schiff, i want to begin where senator tillis just left off today. how did what he did, how did that go down with his republican colleagues getting up there and saying what he actually thinks about vladimir putin? well, my guess is most of them looked at him with some envy that he was able demonstrated the courage to speak what they were all thinking, because they understand what a threat that putin represents. they also see what an abject surrender trump is making to the kremlin's interest. the way that trump is denouncing zelensky, the way he is adopted, the kremlin talking points that somehow ukraine is to blame for its own invasion. they understand the danger in what donald trump is doing and saying, and how it is irrevocably damaging our nato alliance and our standing in the rest of the world. so i think that the vast majority of them are complete agreement with what tom tillis said. they just aren't willing to confront the president. we're going to have votes on ukraine tonight as a part of this vote a rama that we're in the middle of. i've off

senator adam schiff weighs in on what vice president j.d. vance and defense secretary pete hegseth said this week. at the top of the hour. good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone. to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news from a high stakes security gathering overseas. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy today calling for the creation of a european army. hours after he sat down with vice president j.d. vance, he warned world leaders that russia is not preparing for dialog, and the u.s. may not always be a reliable ally. >> let's be honest now, we can't rule out the possibility that america might say no to europe on issues that threaten it. we must build the armed forces of europe so that europe's future depends only on europeans. >> a live report in just a few minutes on that also breaking today. emotional reunions as hamas frees three israeli hostages against the backdrop of veiled threats and an ultimatum from president trump. israel's military in return released hundreds of pale

kash patel treated adam schiff with a lot more fairness than at everett treated cash. you know kash patel what he think of his nomination and his tenure at the bureau? >> first off he has extensive national security experience a. and a second he will shift the focus from the fbi headquarters in washington up into the field offices across america as a former federal prosecutor you know the fbi plays such an important role prosecuting and investigating crimes like cybercrime, organized crime, terrorism. these are things they have an expertise to do across america. and kash patel is made clear law enforcement agents to be law enforcement agency. to be fighting crime and keeping our communities safe. he is also very committed to transparency and depoliticize in the fbi. these are exactly the kind of attributes we need in fbi director. i think he will be a wonderful director he and pam bondi together are going to ensure these agencies are committed to fairness, i committed to treatig americans equally and the senate at this point needs to stop and get him confirmed. trey: y

schiff:. -- thank you. sen. moody: thank you, senator. they've been so impressed with this committee. i've been a senator all of four weeks, so get ready. i bring an array of has not just as attorney general, but as a mother of a teenager right now. i'm so impressed with the topics we have focused on, specifically this one. it was shocking that the senate was able to me anonymously on protections for children and they ran right into the house that did not go along with some of those things will hoping we can change that as attorney general, i fought in court against many of the platforms, i must get it platforms -- i investigated platforms for homes to children. i'm a mother dealing with this. i tell people all the time it is really hard to be one of the first generations of parents trying to parent children and we don't understand what we're are doing because we don't understand the technology to the degree they do. when i am going through some of the controls, i often have to ask my kid what that means. which seems to defeat the purpose

joining us now is democratic senator adam schiff of california.ommittee, as well as the and the committee on environment and public works and the agriculture committee. and senator schiff, let me just begin with the california water point, because you are an expert on exactly what happened and what should not have happened with that water. well, i spent part of this weekend in the central valley, which is the largest agricultural producing area in the country. no one can make heads or tails out of what donald trump did, or why, or thinks it makes any sense whatsoever. as you were pointing out, that water can't get to los angeles. the fires are out there. not 5% contained or 20 or 50% contained. they're 100% contained. so that water is going to be of no use to firefighters. but here's the thing. it's been a dry winter. there isn't as much snowpack as we would usually have. we rely on water that is stored like this water. when farmers need it in summer to irrigate. >> they're not irrigating. >> now. so that water is going to sit in a lake. it's goin

state senator adam schiff responded by sending a letter to several u.s.nment to exempt firefighters from that federal hiring freeze. and as we've been saying, we are 7.5 hours from the kickoff for super bowl 59 at 330 this afternoon. before we go, i want to give you one last live look at the caesars superdome, where the kansas city chiefs are looking for that three peat super bowl win. and the philadelphia eagles are looking for a revenge win after their super bowl loss to the chiefs two years ago. and we want to take you to levi's stadium. the sun is shining. the super bowl will be here next year. super bowl 60. the bay area host committee is in new orleans taking notes. they say levi's stadium will be updating video boards, refreshing club spaces, changing concession stands and nearby cities will be preparing as well. the official host city handoff ceremony is tomorrow, and during super bowl today, our sister station telemundo 48, is airing a spanish language telecast that starts at 3 p.m. on telemundo 48. so how is the forecast? it looks good to be out

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i now recognize senator schiff for five minutes of questions. senator schiff: thank you. it is an honor to serve on this committee and represent california's 4.2 million small businesses including tech startups, nonprofits, childcare centers, rural businesses, the arts and entertainment industry and women and minority-owned businesses. the number is growing daily and i'm proud to represent these incredible business owners, innovators, and hard-working employees. i appreciate the conversation we had last week. if it was last week. the weeks have seemed endless these days. as you know very well, horrific wildfires and hide wind that ravaged california over the last month displacing thousands of families -- horrific wildfires and high wind that ravaged california over the last month have displaced thousands of families. we have california will have the full support of the government to rebuild and we must rebuild resiliently. the sba provides disaster assistance for homeowners, renters, nonprofits, and businesses of all sizes affected by natural disasters. i got to see this

but there's a conflict of interest that you and adam schiff write about here. with elon musk having anything to do with the structuring or restructuring of cfpb. why? >> so here's the story. remember how elon musk bought twitter, turned it into x and hemorrhaged buckets of money? well, he announced, hey, he had another plan to make more money. and that is he would create something called x x money. and the idea was in the same way that x now gets all of your social media information. you would give them all your financial information and make financial transactions on this site. now he can do that, he can launch a financial platform, but when he does, he's going to have a cop standing right over his shoulder just making sure that he follows the law, that he doesn't cheat people, he doesn't trick people, and he doesn't suck up all of their personal information to use it however he wants, or sell it wherever he wants. one cop on the beat would be looking over elon musk's shoulder, and you know where that cop is going to come from? it's from the cfpb. so this look

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because i agree with. >> senator schiff.dd blanche sounded. >> a whole lot. >> more like donald trump's lawyer than he did. >> the people's lawyer. >> and in his statement to senator grassley, he identified. >> four areas. >> where he believed that. >> the doj. >> had previously engaged in misconduct, that. >> he. >> said was a travesty of justice. and all four of the. >> items that he mentioned. >> were all arguments that he. >> made as donald. >> trump's defense attorney. none of which, by the way, were actual misconduct and all of which were incredibly misleading. for example, he said that the special counsel's office wouldn't let donald trump review evidence in the mar-a-lago case. totally misleading. not true. initially, there was an argument about whether classified information could be reviewed. at no point did the prosecutor say that he couldn't review the evidence in his own case. that's a preposterous statement. you know, he they argued as an example of misconduct that the special counsel proposed a trial date five

. >> my full interview with senator adam schiff is coming up next hour. and some new reaction to the trump justice department squeezing career prosecutors to dismiss corruption charges against new york city mayor eric adams. seven prosecutors, including at least two conservatives, resigned before one litigator under pressure from beauvais, made the tough choice to sign the dismissal motion. it's all highly objectionable conduct from mr. beauvais, and if we were. >> in a normal, functioning. justice department, there would be. >> an. >> internal inquiry into the way he behaved and treated these prosecutors. the real risk. >> here would have been. >> that if everyone in public integrity had been fired, then beauvais would have been free to repopulate public integrity with much more compliant, less experienced people. >> we've got several reporters and analysts ready to discuss all of these new developments, and we're going to begin with nbc's yamiche alcindor, who is in washington, and the alarming new developments in the mass firings of government employee

senator schiff, senator booker and myself asked questions about what transpired in the grand jury that kash patel testified in. he was unwilling to disclose any of that even though rule 6a very plainly allows for a witness to come out of a grand jury and described to the entire world what it is they told the grand jury. he then said, when confronted with that legal fact, that he thought there was a seal order of some kind that he was under that would prevent him from doing the customary witness disclosure that is commonplace right under 6e. in that regard, we looked wherever we can, we asked him where the order is. there is no sign of a seal order that would bear any relationship to his testimony. there is the very real prospect he is being untruthful about there being a seal order. the further aspect of this is he asserted his fifth amendment privilege not to incriminate himself during the course of these proceedings. that as a matter of law requires he had a substantial and real risk of criminal prosecution when he made that assertion. is an incoming fbi director has faced a time whe

you related to a new precedent that this committee seems to be setting during the hearings senators schiff and booker and myself asked questions about what transpired in the grand jury that kash patel testified in. he was unwilling to disclose any of that even though rules 6-e very plainly allows for a witness to come out of a grand jury and describe to the entire world what it is that they told the grand jury. he then said when confronted with that legal fact that he thought that there was a seal order of some kind that he was under that would prevent him from doing the customary witness disclosure that is commonplace right under 6-e. in that regard we looked wherever we can, we asked him where this order is, there is no sign of a seal order. that would bear any relationship to his testimony. there's the very real prospect that he's simply being untruthful about there being a seal order. the further aspect of this is that he asserted his fifth amendment privilege not to incriminate himself during the course of these proceedings. that as a matter of law requires that he have had a substant

chair boozman: senator schiff. sen. schiff: thank, mr. chairman.hink everyone can agree that american farmers today face deeply different challenges, from extreme weather events, never ending labor shortages, and a looming trade war, just to name a few. these challenges come on top of a job that's inherently demanding and at times unforgiving. it's congress's job to ensure that when farmers are faced with a worst-case scenario, they have the tools to weather the storm and eventually rebuild. that's why congress invests billions each year in federal crop insurance and disaster assistance programs. while traveling through california, i learned many of our growers simply are not eligible for the insurance or assistance they need. california farmers are incredibly resilient but they deserve our full support as well. mr. larew, can you speak to the challenges that specialty crop growers face when it comes to accessing federal programs? perhaps you both could address what steps you think congress could take to expand access to risk management options for

pleasure to introduce my colleague from the state of california senator schiff. thawnch senator padilla. with a 30 years ago i served as a assistant u.s. attorney in los angeles for almost six years there wasn't a finer law enforcement agency that i worked for at that time. nor have i witnessed in the 30 years since than the fbi but instead that building right now, there's a purge going on. inside that building fbi agent who is dedicated to protecting public of purged from their offices, thousands of fbi agents have been sent questionnaires asking them about their work on the january 6th investigations. and let's just take a moment to understand what that's all about. on january 6th, a violent mob attacked a a capitol, the police officers gouged them in the service of an even bigger crime which was stopping the peaceful transfer power. not only were these agents who are being purged assigned those case and did their assignments, but they did so in a righteous prosecution against those involved in attacking police and attacking the peaceful transfer power. but the

and when -- in the confirmation hearing my colleagues, adam schiff and others, asked about the purge, he heard nothing, see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing. he didn't know anything about it. two days later, it comes out he was masterminding it. and implementing it. as he was lying to us in the committee. so the biggest threat to our country right now is donald trump's frontal assault on the rule of law. and one of the generals in that assault is kash patel. we must defeat his appointment as the f.b.i. director. sen. durbin: thank you. questions? too cold for questions. all right. we're out of here. [laughter] thank you, all. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] announcer: you've been watching live coverage. we return now to our scheduled program. we join it in progress. unties jo win by 20 or 30 points go to trump? >> i would like to make a comment more broadly on a theme of this panel. i am not sure it's quite that clear. earl

senator adam schiff firing back, posting, jd, we both went to law school, but we don't have to be lawyers to know that ignoring court decisions we don't like puts us on a dangerous path to lawlessness. during a pregame interview on fox, trump defended doge, suggesting what they could be up to this week. >> i'm going to tell them very soon, like maybe in 24 hours, to go check the department of education. he's going to find the same thing. then i'm going to go go to the military. let's check the military. >> meanwhile, the trump administration has ordered the consumer financial protection bureau to stop nearly all its work, effectively shutting down an agency that was created to protect consumers after the 2008 financial crisis. and trump says he will revoke security clearances on several biden administration officials and prosecutors who brought cases against him. perry russom abc news, washington. >> perry, thanks. confirmation votes are expected this week for rfk jr and tulsi gabbard after the white house chipped away at republican resistance. kennedy appears to have enough support to be

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. >> senator schiff will be joining us shortly. to my friend senator welch, we have a great relationship, but some of the things that he was talking about, the tug and pull of the executive and the legislative branch plays out this way every time you have a transition of power. the best example is the very current example right now between a democratic governor and a republican legislature in the state of north carolina. we have a new governor who in his first 90 days is probably going to do, as he should, push the boundaries of the executive branch, the same thing with president trump. we need to continue to assert that there are very clear differences enshrined in the constitution between who has authority, but to pretend that that just occurred in this administration is looking past the endless speeches that were made over the last four years about president biden stretching his authority being challenged in court, etc. so i don't think that this is new, and i do believe that getting back to mr. patel, that he has been treated u

adam schiff is someone on trump's alleged enemies list. so it's definitely partisan and it's petty and it's not going to close the presidio and, frankly, it's also a strategic distraction from issues that we really need to be concentrating on, but he didn't eliminate anything in the midwest. he didn't eliminate anything in the south. he targeted the presidio and some foreign aid organizations. >> one of the last times we talked you said this is basically a whac-a-mole. is that what we're seeing today? >> absolutely. are he will try to cut things at the presidio. there will be lawsuits filed. i don't think he'll get very far given the statutory foundation, but he could fire employees who are federal employees. he could fire people that administer the park, certain services maybe that the federal government pays directly for, but that's not very many. as you noted, it is a surplus commercial success, the presidio, and a crown jewel for the people of san francisco, and i think it's more distraction than a substantive swipe, but his people wil

adam schiff calling kash patel a political hack who would be a yes man for donald trump. that might be a concern for democrats, but nothing really came of this momentum on the republican side of the aisle. to keep kash patel away from the fbi. moderate republicans like thom tillis, for example, have long said that he would be a yes on his nomination. so by all accounts, in the next few hours, we do expect kash patel will be confirmed as trump's fbi director. this is somebody who's been a loyalist to him for several years, an ally. he worked for him during his first administration as well. concerning for democrats, but it does look like he'll make it to that agency, which is the biggest, which is the investigative arm of the doj. jose. >> yeah. i mean, kash patel does appear to be greg, for all intents and purposes, going to pass. what stands out to you? >> well, this is. >> an unorthodox nomination. >> i think. >> to say. >> the. >> least. >> versus the last. several nominated fbi directors since j. >> edgar hoover. >> all of whom, by the way, with, i think, one exception

and last night, senator adam schiff forced a vote to exempt firefighters from the hiring freeze and appearedd. >> if you can believe. >> this. >> even as. we've just. gone through these cataclysmic. fires in california. >> and are. >> about to start a new fire season, these firefighters who were bravely out there battling the flames are getting a letter from donald trump that says, please quit. we'll see whether the republicans are willing to stand up to trump on even something as basic as that. >> that amendment was ultimately shot down by schiff's gop colleagues, failing 52 to 48. nbc's melanie zanona is reporting from capitol hill. mel, this was all part of a ten hour vote a rama. sounds fun. actually is not in practice. break that down for us. what did we see? >> yeah. so this is just the very first step. what's going to be a very long process to actually unlock president donald trump's agenda here on capitol hill? because republicans are trying to use this complex process called reconciliation, which ultimately will allow senators to just pass bills over in the senate with a simple majo