Adam Schiff: 'I Want To Begin By Quoting The Jury In The Manhattan Hush Money Payment Trial...'

3 months ago

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing held last week, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) spoke about former President Trump being found guilty in New York.

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00:00I want to begin by quoting the jury in the Manhattan hush money payment trial.

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02:58Do we need to tear down the rule of law,

03:00our institutions, our justice system,

03:02anything that gets in the way of power?

03:04Have we ever seen anything like this?

03:14Three periods come to mind, Mr. Schiff.

03:16The first is the founding period

03:18and, in particular, the ferment between

03:20the Articles of Confederation

03:22and the Constitution

03:24when the founders and the framers

03:26the Federalist Papers, a passage you know well,

03:31worried about that in that period of instability,

03:37a tyrant would arise.

03:38That was resolved by one of the fortunate accidents,

03:43not just in American history,

03:45but I dare say in the history of the world,

03:49George Washington's establishing the tradition

03:52of peaceful transition that Donald Trump

03:54ultimately broke for the first time in our history.

03:57Number two, the Civil War period,

03:59when we had those within,

04:01who also proclaimed that they would not accept

04:07American rule of law.

04:11That period of divisiveness is also found

04:15in the post-Civil War era,

04:17the decline of Reconstruction,

04:21that assault on our constitutional system

04:23that became the Jim Crow era.

04:26Those are three precedents.

04:28We see other dangers, including here in Congress,

04:31the period of McCarthyism.

04:33Donald Trump represents the most grave danger

04:36to this country, at least since the end of Jim Crow,

04:41very likely since the commencement of the Civil War,

04:45and perhaps since the founding of our nation from within.

04:51Thank you, Ambassador.

04:52Mr. Chairman, I yield back.

Adam Schiff: 'I Want To Begin By Quoting The Jury In The Manhattan Hush Money Payment Trial...'

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