and how he still operates today. the man who warned us, in the first trump impeachment trial, that donald trump would do it again, has a new warning for us. republican legislatures, all across the country have continued trump s big lie about massive voter, fraud initiating phony new audits of the election results and replacing independent election officials, with the ones beholden to partisan legislatures. they are preparing the battlefield, and the struggle to overturn the next presidential election, if it doesn t go their way. and should they regain the majorities in congress, they just might be successful. the trump presidency was a stress test for our system, for the results must wake us up, the survival of our institutions, and the rule of law, depends on what we do next. leading off our discussion tonight is democratic congressman adam schiff to california. he s the chair of the house intelligence committee and a
member said. i know these people, i can talk to them. i can talk my way through them. you are in a whole different category. in that moment, we were not merely members of different political parties, but on opposite sides of a much more dangerous divide. at first i was idly touched by these gop members in their evident concern. but by then, i had been receiving death threats for years, and that feeling soon gave way to another. if these republican members had enjoying the president and falsely attacking me for four years, i wouldn t need to be worried about my security, none of us would. adam shift rates in the first impeachment trial of donald trump in which adam schiff was the lead prosecutor in the senate trial. republicans proved to donald trump, that the republicans in congress would never confront, him never constrain him, and had been fully and successfully
trump, instead this. the constitution can protect us, right doesn t matter anymore, and you know, you cannot trust this president, to do what s right for this country. you can trust he will do what is right for donald trump. he ll do it now, he s done it before, he ll do it for the next several months, he ll do it in the election if he s allowed to. this is why, if you find him guilty, you must find, that he should be removed. because right matters, because right matters. and the truth matters. otherwise we are lost. in his new, book midnight in
their own alternative facts, in the idea that he would ever step foot in the speaker s office, is just a terrifying. one tell us about that idea, if the republicans win, and get the house back in the next, election next, year kevin mccarthy becomes speaker, what does that mean for the country? in the next two years of the biden presidency? i think what that means is a couple of things. one is people have speculated well could donald trump actually be the speaker, because you don t need to be in congress to be speaker, the reality is, he would need to be the speaker, because essentially, kevin mccarthy would do anything donald trump told him to do. i think that s all too apparent. and, one of the most profound indications of, that is what took place after the insurrection, for a moment, you could see kevin mccarthy putting his finger to the winds, and sensing that the direction of the wind was running against donald trump, he adjusted
party? in congress or did he give them a chance to reveal who they really are? i think really both, it was really astounding to me, that someone is deeply flawed as donald trump, in a matter of for sure years or less, could completely remake one of america s great political parties, in his flood, image but he did it, and the reason he was able to do it, was because all too many of the republican leadership in the congress, did not turn out to care anything about anything they said they cared about. one of the most frequent questions i get from constituents and others around the country s, to the republicans really believe what they re saying publicly, when you talk to them privately? in the answer is all too often know. they do not, they don t believe in the ideology that they profess, they don t believe in conservative, values they don t believe in family values. it turns out they only believe in the maintenance of their own position and power. that is where power has