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The MeidasTouch Podcast

Fed Up Senator Adam Schiff Drops the Hammer on Trump

The MeidasTouch Podcast

MeidasTouch Network

Politics, News

4.87.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas interviews California Democratic Senator Adam Schiff on his reaction to the Confirmation Hearings of Trump’s cabinet picks and Trump’s other actions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm joined by California Senator Adam Schiff. Senator, you grilled Cash Patel Donald Trump's

0:35.9

pick to be the director of the FBI.

0:39.2

That hearing took place earlier.

0:40.8

What's your reaction?

0:43.0

Well, I think if you were watching the hearing, you could see.

0:45.6

This is the guy that rose the ranks in Trump world by being the guy that wouldn't say no to the president,

0:52.1

who would do things that others would not.

0:55.4

This is the guy who was promoting songs by a prison choir that included people that had beat

1:02.6

Capitol Police officers. He tried to dissemble about that today, first saying that he had

1:09.2

nothing to do with these recordings and then went confronted with

1:13.6

statements he made on Bannon's podcast about how we did this to produce it and we, you know,

1:19.6

mastered the recording and we went to the studio, suddenly denied that by we he was including himself.

1:26.6

So there were some absurd efforts at deflection,

1:30.7

some clear demonstrations of dishonesty, but more seriously, an unwillingness to acknowledge

1:39.1

that he was glorifying people who would attack law enforcement. He refused to talk about what he testified before

1:46.0

a grand jury in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. He was maybe the first FBI nominee, director

1:52.8

nominee in history to have to take the fifth before he would testify before the grand jury. So,

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