The longer we go into this conflict without a resolution, the more members become comfortable with the status quo and failure to act ... that would be an appalling result.

Adam Schiff

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I think we start out with a very healthy skepticism, we don't want to do anything that will interfere in any case that the Justice Department may decide to bring.

Whenever they see the President use the word 'fake,' it ought to... by Adam Schiff

Whenever they see the President use the word 'fake,' it ought to set off alarm bells.

If that was designed to hide the origin of the materials, that raises profound questions about just what the White House is doing that need to be answered, i have asked the White House for their assistance in answering those questions.

We're doing our best to try and get the investigation back on track, we're in the process of exchanging witness lists and are going to see if by the end of the day we can agree on at least a common set of initial witnesses.

Ultimately the speaker and the chair decide who they want to run this investigation and they'll have to articulate why and how they feel that can be done credibly, but our job is to do everything in our power to be responsible to go forward and be constructive and that's what we're doing.

I think that we certainly had agreement today that the witnesses that we feel are appropriate, they won't stand in our way, and we feel the same way about witnesses they want to call, so I think that was an encouraging sign.

It certainly was a part of our discussion, but beyond what we agreed to do, or hope to achieve to do by the end of the day, I really don't want to get into specifics.

We are scheduled to talk tomorrow, i hope that we can somehow get back on track. ... The chairman is going to have to find a way to lift this cloud.

I can only conclude that it really doesn't show what it's being p... by Adam Schiff

I can only conclude that it really doesn't show what it's being purported to show.

I can't overlook if the chairman of our committee is going to fre... by Adam Schiff

I can't overlook if the chairman of our committee is going to freelance in this way.

You'd have to go back to Watergate to find something truly analogous, and we need to find away to bring back that bipartisan ethic and commitment to this investigation.

We certainly welcome the director to come back, but not in lieu o... by Adam Schiff

We certainly welcome the director to come back, but not in lieu of a public hearing.

Whether the White House's desire to avoid a public claim of executive privilege to keep her from providing the full truth on what happened contributed to the decision to cancel today's hearing, we do not know, but we would urge that the open hearing be rescheduled without further delay and that Ms. Yates be permitted to testify freely and openly.

We've reached the point, after the events of this week, where it would be very difficult to maintain the credibility of the investigation if the chairman did not recuse himself from matters involving either the Trump campaign or the Trump transition team of which he was a member, the questions are profound enough that I think we need to move past it, and ideally that would mean the chairman ought to recuse himself, not only from the investigation involving potential coordination or collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but also any oversight of minimization issues affecting the Trump transition since he was a member of that Trump transition team.

After much consideration, and in light of the Chairman's admission that he met with his source of information at the White House, I believe that the Chairman should recuse himself from any further involvement in the Russia investigation, as well as any involvement in oversight of matters pertaining to any incidental collection of the Trump transition, as he was also a key member of the transition team.

This is not a recommendation I make lightly, as the chairman and I have worked together well for several years; and I take this step with the knowledge of the solemn responsibility we have on the Intelligence Committee to provide oversight on all intelligence matters, not just to conduct the investigation.

Democrats feel that if we're not engaged in this investigation, no one will be, there are some, I'm sure in this building, who would like nothing more than this investigation to go away.

We still really want this investigation to be non-partisan, and what the chairman did this week makes that very hard.

We continue to get new information that, I think, paints a more complete picture of at least what we know at the outset of our investigation.

If we are listening to two foreign spies, for example, talking to each other on foreign soil or two representatives of a foreign government, and they mention a US person -- that is incidental collection.