created by the president that everyone knew as you perfectly articulated at the opening of the show, that now we have to live by. and it is dangerous. any kind of mistake could be catastrophic on one side, m misinterpreting the other side. it is not a scenario that puts me at ease particularly as you said, again, the generals are gone and you know that mr. bolton, this has been his thing. he s want today go and attack iran for years. so i am very concerned and very nervous. it is a critical matter of which we ve got to keep our response on, and i think those of us in congress we have to keep our eyes open and be very vocal and demand the administration communicates with us directly. well, you never know maybe the combination of this presenting huge risk to this president, which i m sure he s aware of and he does have a natural reticence for military action, maybe it ll make his reach out to congress.
all right. so this president says that the united states will not stand for the downing of one of our drones over international waters, but he s also apparently choosing to describe what happened as a mistake. well, which is it, and is the difference relevant to the response? house intel chair adam schiff was among the senior members of congress briefed today in the white house situation room. he joins us now. chairman, it s great to have you on primetime tonight with such pressing news matters before us all. you had an important briefing today. coming out of this, do you have any question as to whether or not iran intentionally shot down a u.s. drone? well, iran certainly shot down the drone. whether this was an intentional act by the top leadership or not is not something that i can really comment on. but i can say that we need to be working with our allies. there s been an attack now on an
abuse of pardon power. and this bill would curb the use of getting foreign assistance. there aren t many americans willing to put their name out there, risk an angry tweet or being criticized by fox prime time, but they will support these probably once donald trump is out of the oval office because i think they understand as we do that what the president did in the last election, what he threatens to do in the next one is so destructive of our democracy to be inviting foreign intervention this way. so i don t know how much support, bipartisan support we ll get today. but i think we will see these kind of bills pass when it s no longer a risk to members to support them, that president trump is going to come down on them. it is amazing how the fear of consequences overwhelming good conscience in congress right now. chairman, so good to have crow on the show in these important moments. great to be on, chris. thank you. hopefully everybody s on the same page that the situation with i
who hasn t sold their beliefs? donald trump. absolutely. he s the head of the party and needs to be out there leading and putting forward some principles and selling them to the public. i think that one of the things that has to remain in context, and one of the reasons anxiety is there because the republican voters are looking for a victory. it seems like the republicans have their own type of resistance going on. they are not working to support the american first agenda that the president has laid out. why do you think that is? not every member of congress, not every member in the senate is supporting that agenda. what is more important, at some point, is it supporting the man or the principles? they got elected on, they won elections as well. reporter: how many are worried about the back-and forth within the wings of the party? this has been characteristic of the republican party to fight against itself. the concern i have with bannon n particular, when you talk about
and passed regulatory reform. that s a good thing for the american people. one of the questions i heard come up is what this means for the president s policy. that s something you re talking about as well. we heard about the 401(k) proposal potentially what will happen with that when it comes to this tax package. you said you agree with the president. you tweeted this. when it comes to not touching americans 401(k)s. but a lot of your colleagues in the house have been frustrated with the president or have not seen eye to eye to him when it comes to 401(k)s. you ve got others who are talking about the president needs to step aside. the white house needs to get out of this discussion. should the white house and the president get out of the tax reform discussion so that you guys in congress can figure out some kind of package? no. i think we need a vibrant debate across both branches of government. i think it s good to have the white house weigh what they think. and congress weigh