Transcript for One-on-one with top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee

Nothing we heard today has changed our view. That there is no evidence to support any allegation that the FBI. Or any intelligence agency placed the spying in the trump campaign. Or otherwise failed to follow appropriate procedures. And protocols. That was Adam Schiff the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff after FBI and Justice Department officials briefed congressional leaders on the FBI informant at the center of the investigation. In to president trumps 2016 campaign congressman Schiff joins us now good morning good morning. I I what your reaction just a short time ago Rudy Giuliani said on Fox News that all of this is like water. Well this like Watergate in the sense that tell you had a break in at the democratic headquarters in this case a virtual one not physical break in. And you had a president as part of a cover up and here you have a present in different kind of cover up. I have a president tell peddling these so falsehoods and you have essentially people putting out a propaganda like Rudy Giuliani to further that fiction. It is I think of a size and scope probably beyond water cay just off the Watergate president is referring to are not. Are not there when Rudy Giuliani has referred to certainly and I know you can't. Reveal classified information but you were in. That briefing this week can you give us a sense of what it was like in the room with the Democrats on one side the Republicans on the other. Well there were two meetings the first was this kind of broke meeting with Goudie and newness and of course the thing that struck me immediately was the presence of and that flood. Along with chief of staff Kelly neither one should be there but it was all the more. A glaring when you've had the president's lawyer the guy hired to fight the so called witch hunt. This was supposed to be. Ostensibly about congressional oversight but of course. The meeting was so always in ten of something very different and that is the trump defense team's effort. To get information in an investigation implicating the precedent. Now that is completely improper it's a violation of all those safeguard to put in place after Watergate. But if it wasn't made clear enough by and that floods presence at that meeting the defendants lawyer for the president. It was made abundantly clear by Rudy Giuliani afterwards when he said. Our whole purpose is to get information we shouldn't have before our defense to guide our defense team. And what makes as well she. She said let he told Politico we want to see how the briefing went. Today and how much we've learned from it if we learned a good deal from it it will shorten that whole process considerably. I want to go back to Emmett flat and John Kelly. It can tell me if it was several contentious when they were in there. A just a little bit more about what it was like in that room and and both sides. I told mr. flood that I thought there was that he had no business being there that he was the president's defense lawyer. He took issue we set I'm White House counselor said I don't Carol you call yourself fewer of the president's defense lawyer when it comes to this investigation and you have no business being here. Now look he's a good enough lawyer to know he had no business being there. Which means Italy president of they've ordered their sister classified briefing they came in at the beginning and said what they talked about openness willingly to clean. At the beginning I think to send a message show from the president that the president expected. The Justice Department essentially to give these. Allies the presidency is haters and the bettors of the president and congress. What they want it because the president wanted for his defense team. But says that are saying at the floods have been a floor to know he had no business being there. But Giuliani made it so abundantly clear that. The whole purpose of this meeting had nothing new commercial oversight it was to help the presence defense by getting information improperly. From the Justice Department to feed to the president's lawyers now the only thing that makes this possible. Is a congress that this complicit. Is members of congress like Goudie and newness and meadows and Jordan. And a week speaker that will not stand up for the independence of the Justice Department and that means that the rule of law is now on shaky ground. Do you think there's absolutely. Again I now can carry get classified material. But is there absolutely no case the Republicans could make that there was a spy. And the president. There is no evidence to support that spy theory you know this is suggest a piece of propaganda the present wants to put out repeat. And certainly who we've seen this pattern before. The president will suggest something he preface this by saying people are saying or people are like they used general clapper who we do we listen 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. Yes well they put this out there and then they say well ballot it's out there we need to investigate that even senator reveal this morning saying. Well we shall look and find out if this is true. But this is part of the propaganda machine let's spread that completely fallacious story and then let's say that needs to be investigated and give it a life of its own. But it is resonating just quickly how do you counter that well the brunt question is how do you counter president to repeats falsehood after falsehood after Fossett. That has the bully pulpit of the presidency to do it and has allies in congress 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 presence will. And as long as we have a deeply unethical president there's only one ram but he. 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. Okay the view from congressman Adam Schiff thanks very much for coming in the thanks.

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