Adam Schiff: “We had witnesses from the Justice Department who had to…”

“I invited Jamie Raskin to join me in a bicameral oversight hearing, the kind of oversight that Republicans refused to do. We had witnesses from the Justice Department who had to resign their position or were fired because they refused to engage in unethical conduct. We talked about how we're going through a period, not unlike the McCarthy era, that calls upon all of us to stand up, to speak out, to act with courage.” (00:16–00:24)

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