House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff
Adam Bennett SchiffPence’s office questions Schiff’s request to declassify more material from official’s testimony: report Sunday talk shows: Lawmakers gear up ahead of Monday’s House Judiciary hearing Trump denies report that he still uses personal cell phone for calls MORE (D-Calif.) on Sunday defended obtaining phone records in the House’s impeachment inquiry, saying only “the far right” has raised objections.
“The blowback has only come from the far right,” Schiff told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation.” “Every investigator seeks phone records to corroborate and sometimes to contradict a witness’s testimony,” he added.
Schiff also clarified that the committee had not subpoenaed call records for the committee’s ranking member, Rep. Devin Nunes
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“The fact that Mr. Nunes or [Rudy] Giuliani or others show up in this scheme doesn’t make them irrelevant, doesn’t give them a pass,” he added.
Schiff declined to say exactly what articles of impeachment the House would file, but said, “I can tell you as a former prosecutor it’s always been my strategy in a charging decision, an and an impeachment in the House is essentially a charging decision, to charge those that there’s the strongest and most overwhelming evidence and not try to charge everything even though you could charge other things.”
The Intelligence Committee chairman declined to say whether information from special counsel Robert Mueller
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“I think we should be focus on those issues that provide the greatest threat to the country [such as] when the president is engaged in a course of conduct that threatens the integrity of the next election,” he added.
