John Ratcliffe Suggests Schiff Is Still Lying
In an excellent interview with Maria Bartiromo this morning, TX Rep. John Ratcliffe made some powerful criticisms of the Dem run House. The most important--but it's all important--is that Adam Schiff may still be lying when he says that he had no personal contact with the "whistleblower." Ratcliffe won't say that flat out, but you be the judge. In my transcript I've trimmed a bit from some of Maria's questions, but not much.
Bartiromo: There's speculation this morning that in fact Adam Schiff met with the whistleblower directly. Can you confirm that?
Ratcliffe: [Smiles] Well, uh, think about this, Maria. Washington Post, of all newspapers, hadda give Adam Schiff four Pinocchio's, for, when he said that they had not had any direct contact with the whistleblower. That wasn't true. So, what I can tell is, there was contact between the whistleblower and either Adam Schiff and his team on the Intelligence Committee and the details of that we all, I think the President who is, they're attempting to remove from office on the basis of this impeachment, deserves to know what type of contact there was between Adam Schiff and his team and this whistleblower. And we shouldn't have to take Adam Schiff's word for it with a wordsmith press release or tweet that 'There's not much and we really don't need to look at that.' He needs to be put under oath, he needs to answer the questions. And, again, that's the reason he should not be allowed to run the investigation where he and his team are central fact witnesses.
Bartiromo: House Republican Minority leader Kevin McCarthy responded to Pelosi's refusal to answer questions about more information about this impeachment and he sent a letter , he's sending a letter, to her last week basically saying that, 'You need to get Adam Schiff out of that leadership position.' And you talked to me about several reasons why Adam Schiff cannot run this investigation. One of them is that this is being done in the Intel Committee, as opposed to the Judiciary Comittee. Any impeachment process the jurisdiction is Judiciary, right?
Ratcliffe: In the 240 years, plus, of our history, those rare times we have had impeachment process, it's always gone through the House Judiciary Committee, because the House Judiciary Committee is the Committee of jurisdiction over the Constitution and over impeachment. It's not the Intelligence Committee.
Bartiromo: Then why would she [Pelosi] go to the Intelligence Committee, that Adam Schiff runs?
Ratcliffe: I think two reasons. One, I think, Nancy Pelosi I think has so little confidence, apparently, in Jerry Nadler to run this the way she wants it.The other reason is, by moving it to the Intelligence Committee she can accomplish what they did this week. Adam Schiff can say, 'Gosh, this all has to be done behind closed doors,' unlike any other impeachment in our country, which is public, he's conducting this behind closed doors, making up the rules as it goes, as he wants them, as it suits his purpose. And so you have a jurisdictional problem, you have a problem with transparency, and then worst of all the guy who's in charge of running the investigation is a central witness in the investigation, something which we don't allow anywhere in this country and never have. Third world countries are shocked at the kangaroo court, banana republic, make it up as you go impeachment inquiry that the Democrats are running in this country.