Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
ADAM SCHIFFAmericans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
ADAM SCHIFFWe need Democrats and Republicans in Congress to work together to fashion a very comprehensive pushback to Russia, not just the cyber-hacking, but their bribery of officials in Europe, their social media campaign, their overt media campaign.
ADAM SCHIFFWe know that Russia was involved in hacking our democracy.
ADAM SCHIFFEuphemisms, vague terminology or calls for discussions with Turkey to get at the truth are just some of the dodges Congress and the administration have used to avoid Turkish discomfort with its Ottoman past.
ADAM SCHIFFI think what we are confronting now is a new war of ideas. It’s not communism versus capitalism, but it is authoritarianism versus democracy and representative government.
ADAM SCHIFFAnd here he is recommending the firing of the top cop doing the Russia investigation, in clear violation of what he had, the attorney general, had committed to doing.
ADAM SCHIFFAnd I don’t think Director Comey ever adequately explained why he treated the Clinton investigation one way and the Trump investigation another.
ADAM SCHIFFAnd if they’re not in existence, if this was yet another fabrication by the president, he needs to come clean about it.
ADAM SCHIFFThey, I think, despised her remarks about the flawed 2011 elections in Russia. They feared that she would be very tough on Russia in terms of sanctions.
ADAM SCHIFFI think that policy is changing, should change and will change.
ADAM SCHIFFFrankly I have much more faith in what they posted than what they say during the course of an interview.
ADAM SCHIFFThe intelligence community is very professional, they do their jobs well, they’re the best intelligence gatherers in the world.
ADAM SCHIFFWe need Trump to lead the liberal democratic order around the world.
ADAM SCHIFFThat says, I think, a lot about where the president is coming from, but it was quite jarring given this was an attack on our democracy by a foreign power.
ADAM SCHIFFWe are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King’s dream.
ADAM SCHIFFObviously, some of it will have to be done in closed session.
ADAM SCHIFF