Schiff Says Dems Are In ‘Preliminary’ Stage Of Potential Trump Impeachment

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the web of contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017.    (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference ... Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks to reporters about the actions of Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., as the panel continues to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and the web of contacts between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 30, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) MORE LESS
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House Intelligence chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Sunday that Democrats are in the “preliminary” stage of impeaching President Donald Trump.

“Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd pressed Schiff on whether Democrats were pursuing impeachment after they filed for special counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury materials on Friday to decide whether or not to begin impeachment proceedings.

“I think that for the purposes of the law and Constitution, where we are now is most accurately described as preliminary to a judicial proceeding,” Schiff said. “And that judicial proceeding is a potential impeachment.”

According to Schiff, getting the grand jury material and seeing the evidence Mueller found in his Russia probe is “the most important thing” right now.

“And the standard the court has set, that we have really set for the court, is are we preliminary to a potential impeachment? And I believe that we are,” the California Democrat said.

Watch Schiff speak below:

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  1. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

    Like it or not Chuckles, it is what it is.

  2. I think this is exactly the right legal maneuver, and I understand that care is required in the language, but I hope the Dems can express this in a simpler soundbite than “preliminary to a potential” impeachment. Sounds pretty weak for something this aggressive.

    That said, damn the torpedoes!

  3. Interesting to see Schiff say this.

  4. It’s about time because our democracy, sovereignty, liberty and justice/rule of law embodied by USC is being attacked by unpatriotic people from within and from adversarial foreign nation(s).

    When the White/Suprecaicists/ CONServatives/MAGAts/Rs/Trump decry that they are fighting for their existential threat - the threat that they are referring to, is the existential threat of them losing their political power/white privilege in order to satisfy their greed, corruption, criminality and hatred.

    For the rest of us, our existential threat are the attacks to the heart soul of our country and to who we are as Americans!

  5. Imagine the difference between TODAY and when the TPM article (“Schiff Throws Cold Water on Impeachment”) appeared a few days ago.

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