Democratic Representative Adam Schiff said that he is worried that President Donald Trump could make redactions to the Democratic memo not for security reasons but for political ones.
During an interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Schiff said that he was more concerned about the White House withholding information from the document that they perceive as “unfavorable to the president.”
“What I’m more concerned about, Alisyn, is that they make political redactions,” he said to CNN host Alisyn Camerota.
“That is not redactions that protect sources or methods, which we’ve asked the Department of Justice and the FBI to do, but redactions to remove information they think is unfavorable to the president,” he added. “That could be a real problem and that’s our main concern at this point.”
Schiff also confirmed that if the White House were to make such redaction, House Democrats would have few options to address the matter, adding that if that happens it would fuel anger from the public for the stonewalling the White House is doing to the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
In his Monday morning tweet, Trump called Schiff “one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington,” and accused him of sharing confidential information, something the White House has previously suggested.
Schiff denied all those claims and shot back at the president by saying that White House chief of staff John Kelly needed to give Trump “a timeout.”
“Look, first he attacked me some months ago, calling me ‘sleazy Adam Schiff,’ now it’s ‘little Adam Schiff’ which, I don’t know, seems better. It’s also confusing,” Schiff said.
“But bottom line is I think it may be time for General Kelly to give the president a timeout. The country would certainly benefit from that anyway.”
On Friday, Republican released a declassified memo that alleges the Justice Department approved a surveillance warrant based on information gained from the Steele dossier. Democrats argued that the document is missing facts that would put the information into the right context, and are trying release their own memo which has the missing parts from the previous one.
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