Adam Schiff: “The President has tried to dictate to the legal community…”

“… they took action against the President or they spoke out against the President, or they belonged to the Justice Department when the Justice Department was investigating the President's corruption. So The President has tried to dictate to the legal community who it can defend and who it cannot. Our country in its founding, underscored our founders, underscored the importance of the right of representation, of the right to jury trial, of the right even for unpopular causes, to have representation.” (01:35–01:41)

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