( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ♪♪
>> Stephen: HEY, EVERYBODY!
WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW"!
FOLKS, MY GUEST TONIGHT HAS SPENT OVER
20 YEARS IN CONGRESS, LEADS THE HOUSE INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE,
AND ALSO SITS ON THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON THE JANUARY 6TH
ATTACK.
HE'S WRITTEN A NEW BOOK CALLED "MIDNIGHT IN WASHINGTON."
PLEASE WELCOME BACK TO "THE LATE SHOW,"
CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF!
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) ♪♪
>> Stephen: IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.
AS I WAS TELLING THE PEOPLE EARLIER, TWO YEARS AGO, YOU WERE
HERE IMPEACHING THE FORMER PRESIDENT, BUT NOW YOU'RE ON THE
JANUARY 6th COMMITTEE ABOUT TO HOLD BANNON IN CONTEMPT.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS SAID -- LET
ME GET THIS RIGHT -- HE HOPES THE COMMITTEE "GOES AFTER HIM."
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN?
>> WE'RE GOING AFTER HIM.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN?
IT FEELS UNUSUAL THAT CONGRESS OR A CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE IS
ENFORCING A SUBPOENA.
WHY IS THIS SUCH A RARE EVENT?
>> WELL, BECAUSE, FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS, WHEN YOU HAD
SESSIONS AND BILL BARR RUNNING THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, THEY
VIEWED THEIR JOB, PARTICULARLY BILL BARR, AS ESSENTIALLY THE
CRIMINAL DEFENSE FIRM FOR DONALD TRUMP, AND THERE WAS LITTLE
POINT IN HOLDING WITNESSES WHO DIDN'T SHOW UP ACCOUNTABLE BY
REFERRING THEM TO PROSECUTION BECAUSE, AFTER ALL, WE HELD BILL
BARR IN CONTEMPT.
IF HE WASN'T GOING TO PROSECUTE HIMSELF, HE CERTAINLY WASN'T
GOING TO PROSECUTE OTHERS FOR IGNORING .
>> Stephen: YOU CAN'T SEND OUT THE SERGEANT AT ARMS TO COLLAB
SOMEBODY IN IRONS AND DRAG THEM IN?
>> ACTUALLY, IN THE PAST, ABOUT 100 YEARS AGO, WE COULD DO THAT.
THERE WAS A JAIL, AND WE MIGHT NEED TO BRING IT BACK.
>> Stephen: EARLIER IN THE MONOLOGUE,OFFS SAYING BANNON
WASN'T IN THE ADMINISTRATION AT THE TIME SO THE EXERTION OF
EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE WAS NOT BEING SUPPORTED BY THE BIDEN
ADMINISTRATION.
MAKES HIM KIND OF A SOFT TARGET HERE.
IS IT BECAUSE OF WHAT HE KNOWS OR WHAT HE REPRESENTS THAT IT'S
SO IMPORTANT TO ACTUALLY BRING THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE SUBPOENA?
>> IT'S REALLY BOTH.
CERTAINLY, WHAT HE KNOWS IS REALLY IMPORTANT, AND ON JANUARY
INSURRECTION, HE WAS TELLING PEOPLE ALL HELL WAS GOING TO
BREAK LOOSE THE NEXT DAY.
HE WAS, AS WE UNDERSTAND, IN CONTINUED COMMUNICATION WITH THE
FORMER PRESIDENT.
SO THERE'S A LOT HE CAN TELL US ABOUT WHAT WENT ON IN THE RUNUP
TO JANUARY 6th, WHAT THE PRESIDENT MAY HAVE KNOWN ABOUT
THE PROPENSITY OF VIOLENCE, THE PARTICIPATION OF WHITE
NATIONALIST GROUPS, SO HE IS A VERY PERTINENT WITNESS, BUT IT'S
ALSO REALLY IMPORTANT RIGHT FROM THE START THAT WE ESTABLISH
THAT, IF YOU IGNORE YOUR LAWFUL REQUIREMENT OF TESTIFYING WHEN
YOU'RE SUBPOENAED, YOU WILL GO TO JAIL.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) >> Stephen: I'M SO GLAD TO
HEAR THAT.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST FRUSTRATING THINGS AND THE MOST
DISHEARTENING THINGS ABOUT THE LAST FOUR YEARS IS NOT JUST WHAT
HAPPENED, THOUGH CERTAINLY THAT KEPT YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT, IT'S
THAT THERE DIDN'T SEEM TO BE ANY CONSEQUENCES FOR ANYONE FLOUTING
THE RULE OF LAW OR THE EQUAL POWERS OF THE SEPARATE PARTS OF
OUR GOVERNMENT.
HOW LONG -- HAT'S THE TIMELINE ON THIS, HOW LONG BEFORE YOU
MIGHT BE ABLE TO TALK TO -- >> WELL, WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE
THE VOTE TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE HOUSE WILL VOTE TO HOLD HIM IN CRIMINAL CONTEMPT AND THE
SPEAKER SENDS IT TO THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT AND WE WILL EXPECT
THEM TO ACT QUICKLY.
JUST TO YOUR BROADER POINT, THOUGH, ABOUT WHY PEOPLE GOT THE
SENSE THAT THEY COULD IGNORE THE LAW WITH IMPUNITY, THEY DID THAT
FOR FOUR YEARS, AND EVEN NOW I HAVE TO SAY -- AND THIS IS, I
THINK, A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE I AM AND WHERE THE JUSTICE
DEPARTMENT IS -- I THINK YOU HAVE TO INVESTIGATE ALL OF THE
PRESIDENT'S FORMER CRIMES.
( CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ) I DON'T THINK YOU CAN IGNORE
THEM, AND I SAY THAT BECAUSE, IF ANYONE IN THIS AUDIENCE SAID
CALL THE SECRETARY OF STATE OF GEORGIA AND SAY I WANT YOU TO
FIND 11,780 VOTES THAT DON'T EXIST AND SUGGESTED THAT THEY
MIGHT BE PROSECUTED IF THEY DIDN'T, YOU WOULD GO TO JAIL.
AND I THINK THAT YOU CAN HAVE A SITUATION WHERE YOU -- THAT YOU
CAN'T HAVE A SITUATION WHERE YOU CAN'T PROSECUTE THE FORMER
PRESIDENT AND WHEN THEY LEAVE OFFICE YOU CAN'T PROSECUTE A
FORMER PRESIDENT, BECAUSE THEN THE PRESIDENT BECOMES ABOVE THE
LAW AND TO ME THAT IS DANGEROUS.
>> Stephen: WE HAVE TO TAKE A QUICK BREAK.
STICK AROUND, BACK WITH MORE OF CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF.