Adam Schiff: I Haven’t Called for Barr’s Impeachment; He Should Step Down

‘Whether we should initiate an impeachment proceeding that we know would be doomed to failure is a different question’

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SCHIFF: "Well, you know, to be clear, I haven’t called for the impeachment of the attorney general. I do think he should step down but whether we should initiate an impeachment proceeding that we know would be doomed to failure is a different question. I think we need to take the steps now that would lead to potential contempt hearing and vote in the House with respect to not just his failure to appear, but his failure to provide any of the information underlying the Mueller report. You know, he may not think it’s important to read the report, apparently he doesn’t. It’s staggering that he’s not even aware that there’s evidence that the Trump campaign’s chairman was giving polling data to someone linked to Russian intelligence and discussing the campaign strategy in the mid western states. No wonder he doesn’t think there’s evidence of conspiracy. He apparently hasn’t paid attention to the report. So I do think we need to initiate the proceedings that could lead to holding him in contempt. We can do that without a vote in the Senate. And you know, we should make the strongest statement that these kind of acts of obstruction of Congress, these declarations that the president is above the law are contemptuous of the rule of law. And so I think those are steps that we should begin."

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