September 20, 2023
Washington D.C. — Today, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MSNBC’s Deadline: White House with Nicolle Wallace to react to House Republicans' attacking Attorney General Merrick Garland during today’s Judiciary Committee hearing and using the committee for former President Donald Trump’s legal defense.
Watch the full interview here.
Key Excerpts:
On the fact-free arguments by the GOP in defense of Donald Trump:
[...] I couldn't help escape the conclusion that the alternate fact world ushered in by the Trump Administration is alive and well in Jim Jordan's Judiciary Committee. The facts seem to have no bearing on the arguments that they make. There was a lot of grandstanding and not letting the Attorney General even have a chance to respond to what was reportedly being asked. But it just goes to show how little regard the members of the committee on the GOP side have for the truth, for facts, for our democracy, for the rule of law.
On the GOP’s hypocritical outrage against the Department of Justice:
They're willing to use the committee to undermine these prosecutions of Donald Trump, to interfere with them in any way they can. And they're also pushing out false information about the prosecution of Hunter Biden. And you know, as I tried to bring out during the hearing, imagine the hue and cry — the outrage, if Merrick Garland had removed the Trump appointed prosecutor overseeing the case against Hunter Biden and replaced him with someone else. They...
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