like any other american. no one should get a pass. i think the day we start giving passes with people with power or influence is the day we can say this was the beginning of the end of our democracy. joining us of is democratic senator adam schiff chairman of the senate intelligence committee. i think you read that better than i did. no, trust me, you did it better. i can check myself against the tape. but let me ask about that. i believe from my own research and own reporting on the history of the justice department, particularly when they re confronting serious contentions like sedition, like treason, like insurrection that people with a lot of political power haven t often been held to account specifically in the realm of criminal law. you are saying that that would be a travesty for the country and put us down the road toward giving up democrat si.
of the justice department, particularly when they re confronting serious contentions like sedition, like treason, like insurrection that people with a lot of political power haven t often been held to account specifically in the in realm of criminal law. you are saying that that would be a travesty for the country and put us down the road toward giving up democrat si. do you say that as a warning because you re worry the that s what s going to happen or do you believe we re on track to have a new kind of accountability where nobody is above the law? i certainly hope that it s the latter, that we re going tob see a different kind of accountability where it doesn t matter what your position is or was that you are treated equally before the law. but i am concerned about it. it s taken the justice department a long time to get to the point where it is. they move quickly with respect to the foot soldiers who broke into the building and hurt police officers but moved slowly when it came to