Adam Schiff: “It is plainly not permitted under the law to use the armed…”

“We are grateful to our National Guard to lend a hand in times of natural disasters like fires and floods. And we have all too much experience in both in California. But It is plainly not permitted under the law to use the armed forces to assist the President in some ambiguous campaign of fear or domestic policing or indiscriminate immigration raids. That is not the purpose of the military. That is not the function of the Military that is not a lawful use of the military.” (03:27–03:44)

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