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Adam Schiff: “If the government's response to that is to discipline a…”

Featuring: Adam Schiff, Democratic | U.S. Senate, California

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Adam Schiff and Jamie Raskin Lead Bicameral Hearing on Rule of Law in America

Published | Video Starts at 03:32

If the government of the United States can pluck a man off the street and send him to a prison in El Salvador without any kind of due process or any process whatsoever, then no one is safe. And If the government's response to that is to discipline a lawyer who dares to speak the truth to a court, then no one is safe. And the answer to this climate of fear, there really is only one answer, and you're seeing it today, and that is courage. We must demonstrate courage in the face of this fear. (03:32–03:43)

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