Schiff: ‘There Is No Evidence’ To Support Trump’s ‘Spygate’ Theory

‘This is just a — a piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat’

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RADDATZ: Do you think there’s absolutely — again, I know you can’t reveal classified material. But is there absolutely no case the Republicans could make that there was a spy in the president’s campaign?

SCHIFF: There is no evidence to support that spy theory. This is just a — a piece of propaganda the president wants to put out and repeat. And certainly we’ve seen this pattern before. The president will suggest something, he prefaces by saying people are saying or we are being told —

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RADDATZ: — they use James Clapper, who we — who we listened to a little earlier, James Clapper this week said they were spying on — a term I don’t particularly like, but on what the Russians were doing. So we’re back to that word, spy.

SCHIFF: Yes. Well, they put this out there and then they say well now that it’s out there, we need to investigate it. Even Senator Rubio this morning saying well, we should look in and find out if this is true. But this is part of the propaganda machine, let’s spread a completely fallacious story and then let’s say that it needs to be investigated and give it a life of it’s own. And —

RADDATZ: But it is resonating. Just quickly, how do you counter that?

SCHIFF: Well, the broad question is how do you counter a president who repeats falsehood after falsehood after falsehood, that has the bully pulpit of the presidency to do it and has allies in Congress who are willing to support that. And Martha, at the end of the day, there’s only one remedy for that and that is you need to throw the bums out. As long as there’s a majority in Congress that is willing to do this president’s will and as long as we have a deeply unethical president, there’s only one remedy.

And that is to change the Congress and to let the investigation go on. And that’s what we need to try to fight to do.

RADDATZ: OK. The view from Congressman Adam Schiff. Thanks very much for coming in this morning.

SCHIFF: Thanks, Martha.

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