Schiff plans to make interview transcripts 'fully available' to Mueller
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said Sunday that he plans to move quickly to provide the panel's interview transcripts to special counsel Robert Mueller.
"We hope, as one of our first acts, to make the transcripts of our witnesses fully available to special counsel for any purpose, including the bringing of perjury charges if necessary against any of the witnesses," the California Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union."
Schiff declined to name who among the committee's witnesses he believed might have committed perjury, but he said he had concerns about "multiple witnesses."
"I think Bob Mueller, by virtue of the fact that he has been able to conduct this investigation using tools that we didn't have in our committee, meaning compulsion, is in a better position to determine, OK, who was telling the truth, who wasn't, and who could I make a case against in terms of perjury?" Schiff said.
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erronis
(15,469 posts)So many repug members of that committee that obstructed and lied, intentionally or through incompetence.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)I know Nunes lied a lot. But as the chairperson of the committee I don't think he was giving testimony when he lied.
As for obstruction, that is a different matter. His running to the subject of an investigation with classified information that might assist that person in avoiding justifiable prosecution sure seems like a crime to me. But I'm not a lawyer.
machoneman
(4,016 posts)he can't be held accountable while chairman.
riversedge
(70,459 posts)mucifer
(23,624 posts)is above the law.
bluestarone
(17,127 posts)remain private? I really hope there isn't shit he can do anymore!!
SWBTATTReg
(22,214 posts)authority he thinks he has allows him to commit illegal acts.
bluestarone
(17,127 posts)Laws mean NOTHING to this mother-fucker
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)Steve Bannon did that, if I recall.
bluestarone
(17,127 posts)machoneman
(4,016 posts)He can try (unlikely) but the SC justices would stop him for sure.
Calista241
(5,586 posts)I would be shocked if Mueller didnt already have the transcripts.
Kablooie
(18,647 posts)Ill bet a lot of his buddies felt they could safely lie.
They may have even been encouraged to do so.
red dog 1
(27,920 posts)The fact Schiff even mentioned "the bringing of perjury charges if necessary"
is very interesting.
machoneman
(4,016 posts)as Nunes and the other republiscums didn't ask of them on purpose!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He has the perfect personality to head the investigative committee. Calm, determined, unemotional, persevering, blunt and bold, with a keen mind. A deadly Democratic weapon.