House Intel Chairman Schiff warns a failed impeachment fight could set wrong precedent.
WASHINGTON — House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., defended the House Democratic leadership's cautious approach toward launching impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, saying that charges destined to be nullified by the GOP-controlled Senate could set an unwelcome precedent.
“I worry equally about the message of taking an impeachment case to trial, losing that case, having the president acquitted, and then having an adjudication that this conduct is not impeachable,” he said. But while Mueller did amplify some key assertions of his report — Schiff described Mueller’s testimony as “chilling” and said he highlighted a “campaign and presidential candidate characterized by disloyalty to country, by greed and by lies” — the hearings have not prompted any tectonic shifts among Democrats or Republicans on Capitol Hill.on impeachment and that a “decision will be made in a timely fashion.
“The most important thing is to obtain the grand jury material, to see the evidence,” Schiff said, referring to the underlying evidence on which the Mueller report rests.
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