Adam Schiff: We Are Not Going to Allow Other Things To Be a Distraction from Russia Probe

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SCHIFF: "The committee rules provide that the chair has to sign the subpoenas unless that authority is delegated to someone else. That authority should have been delegated to Mike Conaway in consultation with myself. That hasn’t happened yet, and I think that is a violation of the recusal by the chairman. Much in the same way I thought the Attorney General’s recusal should have covered whether  he participated at all in the firing of the person leading the FBI investigation. So I think in both cases, commitments to recuse themselves have not been fully honored. I hope that will change, but the second issue involves three other subpoenas that went out without consultation with the minority. I only learned about this late the night before, and that is a problem. These were sent out unilaterally by the chairman, and I think they’re part of the White House desire to shift attention away from the Russia probe and on to the issue of unmasking, but Mr. Conaway and I are determined not to lose our focus on the Russian investigation, so we plot on, keeping our eyes on what has to be done and unwilling to let this other stuff distract us."