Rise in the polls. The Republican Committee lost it on democratic adam schiff. They all signed a letter calling for his resignation and today they stated their case. We should not be using false information and bizarre conspiracies. This committee is here to oversee the committee, not as a tribunal. You said you will continue to examine the issues, and that is is the president and those around him part of another power . As such we have no choice but to discharge your duties and urge your immediate resignation as shared by the committee. Now, chairman schiff fired back at his republican colleagues with this. As you have chosen instead of addressing the hearing to simply attack me consistent with the president s attacks, i do want to respond in this way. My colleagues may think its okay that the russians offered dirt on a democratic candidate for president as part of what was described as the russian governments effort to help the Trump Campaign, but i dont think its okay. I think its immoral, i think its unethical, i think its unpatriotic, and yes, i think its corrupt and evidence of collusion. But i do not think that conduct, criminal or not, is okay. And the day we do think thats okay is the day we will look back and say that is the day america lost its way. Senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill following all of this, and the chairman, manu, just laid out the parameters of a new investigative focus for the committee looking at russian influence on foreign policy. Take us through his position and the demands by republicans on the committee. Reporter adam schiff is not backing down in any way, despite the apparent finding fromhe special counsel, according to bill barrs letter, that he could not establish the special counsels investigation did not establish the Trump Campaign coordinated or conspired with the russian government as part of its 2016 russian interference here in the u. S. Schiff has said all along that he believes there was collusion that may not arise to the level of a criminal conspiracy that could be charged in court beyond a reasonable doubt, but he pointed out in that clip you just played a variety of meetings that have occurred during the campaign season, other questionable activities to raise concerns about what the Trump Campaign was up to back in 2016. So republicans have taken advantage and pointed to this letter to demand schiffs resignation, saying they do not have any faith in what schiff is planning to do. What he is planning to do is an investigation, still, into what russia did back in 2016, also about whether there are any financial ties the president may have to foreign interests, especially russian interests. Thats going to be a big focus of his committee, and when i asked him about that in the aftermath of the bill barr letter, he made it very clear that he plans to continue with that investigation. And just moments ago, nancy pelosi defending adam schiff, and the former chairman, the republican chairman of the house Republican Committee, devin nunez, she said his quote was almost criminal. You hear the rhetoric really intensify on both sides as democrats push to get the Mueller Report and push ahead in their own investigations even though the president called adam schiff a disgrace, brianna. We saw jared kushner, the president s soninlaw, on the hill today. What do we know about that . He came out of the room right behind me just about an hour ago. He met with the Senate Intelligence committee, which has been investigating also russia interference in the 2016 election. Whether there was collusion is part of that investigation. Kushner first met with his staff back in 2017. This was pretty early on in the investigation. Since then, democrats in particular, mark warner, the top democrat on the committee, has wanted the senators to reinterview kushner. They wanted the senator to sit down in the meeting, ask about developments we have learned since the 2017 meeting. Him coming today was a surprise. We saw him leaving this committee room, but he was not announced, he was not on the schedule, so it was a bit of a surprise this morning to see him on the hill. Nevertheless, this is an indication, too, that this investigation coming somewhat to a close. Its been going on for twoplus years. Richard burr, the chairman of the committee, said earlier he expects this investigation to last weeks and months more in the aftermath of the Mueller Investigation finishing. For everyone on capitol hill and everywhere else, they want to see the Mueller Report so they know what else they have to investigate. Congresswoman Jackie Speier is joining me now. She is a democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Congresswoman, youve been in this contentious hearing. Tell me what your reaction is for republicans calling for chairman schiff to resign. There is a viciousness in this hearing that i have not seen before on the level that is went on. Im very glad it was a public hearing. The American People have every right to hear from experts about how willing russia is to intervene again in our 2020 election. I think that what happened today was a scripted program by the president of the United States who tweeted this morning about mr. Schiff, and then all of the members spent most of their time, rather than questioning the witnesses we have, trying to beat up on the chairman once again. Ironically, it was the republican chair of the committee who had to recuse himself. He willingly recused himself because his involvement with the white house during the original investigation was called out. And we never asked that he be taken off the committee. So this was an overreach. It started at the presidency, and i think pretty transparent. This committee, the house intel committee, has become so politicized in an unprecedented way. And because of that, its really lost its credibility as an independent arbiter of what american intelligence has found. Do you worry that it makes it impossible for the committee to do its job and to be believed about anything as this committee its become politicized on both sides of the aisle . Do you worry it cant do its job . I think we can do our job, we must do our job. But first and foremost we swear to uphold the constitution of the United States. What came out of this hearing that was important is russia is not giving up. They will engage in the 2020 election. We have got to be much more savvy about the fact that we have a very porous election system. As was reported in the hearing, all of the European Countries have reverted to the paper ballot because they wanted to make sure every vote counts. Those are the kinds of things that we should look at relative to russia, and then, of course, we have much work to do around the world in terms of protecting our national security, and we will continue to do that. I hear what youre saying about the former chairman nunez. He certainly politicized his role. Chairman schiff has had a role, too. He led the American People to believe there was collusion, the hacking of emails, the release of emails and then this online flu influence to the campaign by russia, which was summarized in the Mueller Report. After two years, what is spelled out in that summary is that wasnt found. So how important was it for the chairman, as he pursues these questions, what he says is still evidence of collusion but has to do with not what i just described, how does he reconcile that . First of all, brianna, i think its important to wait until we have the Mueller Report. Were blindly accepting what the president says when hes already lied 8,000 times to the American People. He says hes exonerated. Well, lets wait until we have the report so we can review the the 300 pajds. I think what were going to find is clearly there were invitations by the russians to share dirt on Hillary Clinton. We have emales to suggest that. We know that don jr. Actually met with them along with other members of the campaign. We do know that then paul manafort, the chair of the campaign, met with Constantine Kilimnik and handed over polling data to suggest that donald trump could win. What we do know is that Vladimir Putin wants these sanctions removed, and he will do anything and everything to make that happen. And in the case of the 2016 election, he thought that donald trump was his ticket to get those sanctions removed. It is really difficult, impossible, even, to have a full conversation about the Mueller Report when you cant see it or you cant see a large part of it. Theres 300 pages, weve learned, to this report, and House Judiciary Committee chairman jerry nadler said hes spoken to the attorney general bill barr and that barr wont commit to releasing the report. Why do you think that barr wont commit to releasing the report . So heres the question thats pretty obvious, i think, to the American People. If youve been exonerated, as the president says he is, why arent you releasing the documents to prove youve been exonerated. Why is the attorney general talking about redacting large portions of it . There is nothing that should be redact redacted. There is no amount of security information that is probably going to be released. And again, we have lots of cases that are being pursued around the country that came from the Mueller Investigation. And it was very clear in the Mueller Report that the russian operatives attempted to engage in intervening in our election. We have a report from then chairman nunez that basically said that the intelligence trade craft was infeeffective or inadequate or faulty. So you can see there is a trail that is being pursued by the republicans. That doesnt necessarily jibe with the Mueller Report. Congresswoman, you said that there is this collusion between the white house and say the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell because Mitch Mcconnell wontal through vote, right, to release it and it released in the house 200. The lack of commitment to release the report in its entirety, do you think bill barr is part of that . Do you think hes part of this coordination . I dont know if he is. But he certainly got his job because he sent a 19page singlespaced letter to the president unrequested that basically said that he thought the Mueller Investigation was wrong, that there is no way can obstruct justice. All you have to do is follow the bread crumbs. But there is an effort here to not let the American People see the results of the Mueller Report. They paid for it. They have every right to be able to see it. All right, congresswoman Jackie Speier, thank you so much from the House Intelligence Committee joining us. We always appreciate you being with us. And the mysterious case of Jussie Smollett. Its getting the president s attention now. Hear the new explanation from prosecutors after they dropped charges. Plus, hes been careful with his words on President Trump, but all of that just changed. Why puerto ricos governor says he punched the president in the mouth. And grilling Association Secretary betsy devos after she announced cuts to the special olympics. See what happened. Shouldnt mean going back to the doctoro just for a shot. With Neulasta Onpro patients get their day back. To be with family, or just to sleep in. Strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. 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Prosecutors stunned the country on tuesday with their decision to drop all 16 felony Disorderly Conduct counts against the empire s actor wh had been charged in a hate crime hoax. We have Michael Mcauliffe joining us now from springfield. Sir, thank you for being with us. Good afternoon, brianna. Do you agree with the president that the fbi and the doj need to review this case . Well, thats his prerogative as our chief officer, but im here today to talk about the legislation that i plan on filing tomorrow. Okay, so that legislation is to withhold film tax credits from any production that employs smollett. And i certainly understand how you feel, and you have a lot of support. I know in the area you represent there are a lot of Police Officers there, and im sure theyre making their opinions known to you. I know that you may feel that the legal system here failed to do its job, right . Is this the way to get around that . I mean, its a pretty unprecedented move that youre making, so explain this to us and tell us why this is a proper route to take, in your opinion. Okay. Well, lets go through the story. So two months ago, on a cold winter night when most chicagoans were home, for many days we watched Jussie Smollett say he was a victim. As it turned out, through the hard work of the men and women of the Chicago Police department that get a very bad rap a lot because of the violence here in the city of chicago, this perpetrator or Jussie Smollett, what he did was did a hoax, pretended he was a victim, orchestrated this whole hoax. We lost many, many hours of manpower, man time, overtime on other cases that we could be that the police could be investigating, like murders and shootings, and this went on for two months. Also it made chicago the laughingstock of the nation, because not only was it a hoax crime, it was a hate crime. And he perpetuated that this crime was done for various reasons. So it made chicago a National Laughingstock of the nation. Going into a couple days ago, he gets released, and when he has a chance to say something, he shows no remorse. He says hes innocent. The police say that they have all the video cameras, all the witnesses, that what he committed was a hoax. So as an illinois legislator, the General Assembly here in illinois gives a very robust tax credit to any Production Company that plans on filming tv shows or movies. And i feel, and i believe a