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The following is a partial transcript of Chris Hayes' interview of Rep. Adam Schiff (D) last night on All In:
SCHIFF: ...if you look at the way the committee has operated, notwithstanding these promises that were made by the speaker and by our chairman in the very beginning, they have not worked with Democrats at all, they've called witnesses without telling us, they've subpoenaed people with armed marshals who were wiling to cooperate, and they have interviewed witnesses without even notifying the minority party, and when those witness interviews didn't corroborate their conspiracy theories, they didn't even tell us. We had to learn about those interviews ourselves.
HAYES: Wait, wait, wait - let me make sure I understand that. The committee has interviewed witnesses without notifying Democrats on the committee that those interviews were going to happen?
SCHIFF: Absolutely. They've interviewed several witnesses, they didn't tell us they were going to interview them. They didn't invite us to participate and listen to the interviews. And when we later found out those interviews took place, and we talked to those witnesses, we learned of course that they didn't corroborate any of the conspiracy theories that the Republicans were trying to advance. So no wonder they didn't tell us about the interviews.
HAYES: How can that be? Maybe I'm wrong here, but that's not the way committees work. There's an agenda that's circulated to the entire committee. There's a list of witnesses. There's a procedure that the committee is all read in on.
SCHIFF: Well, they just ignored it. And in fact, to give you yet another example, when they subpoenaed a witness, and this is a true (inaudible - break in audio)...that he won't leak transcripts, won't leak interviews. After almost all the interviews there have been profound leaks from the committee, and when Democrats said, "if you're going to leak the statements of the witness, why don't you release the entire transcript? If you're going to leak emails from this witness, release the entire transcript of their private interviews so the public can evaluate the entire context." And we have the right under their own rules to have a vote on this, and they've denied us even a vote on it.
Unfuckingbelievable. Especially in light of McCarthy's recent admission to Fox News that the entire investigation was designed to bring down Hillary Clinton, it's time to shut this thing down.