Rep. Adam Schiff discussed the January 6th committee's plans to thwart the likes of Jim Jordan cherry-picking any of the evidence after their report is released.
November 28, 2022

Rep. Adam Schiff discussed the January 6th committee's plans to thwart the likes of Jim Jordan cherry-picking any of the evidence after their report is released. Schiff pushed back at some of the reporting coming from the Washington Post which suggested there were tensions between committee staffers and Liz Cheney over whether the final report might focus too much on Trump.

“No, I mean at least I certainly hope not,” Schiff told co-anchor Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” when asked if the story was true.

The Post indicated the staffers want to also focus the report on security and intelligence failures leading up to the Capitol attack.

“I would like to see a report be as broad and inclusive as possible,” Schiff said. “We are discussing as a committee among the members, what belongs in the body of the report, what belongs in the appendices of the report, what is beyond the scope of our investigation. And we’ll reach those decisions in a collaborative manner.”

Schiff then discussed the committee's plans to deal with the likes of incoming House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan who is likely to try to cherry-pick some of their findings to try to generate some new fake scandal by the right. Whether it will be successful or not remains to be seen:

SCHIFF: We're also going to be releasing the evidence, which may be the most important thing, the voluminous transcripts, the documents and e- mails. We want to make sure that that's put before the American people. We certainly don't want the Jim Jordans of the world to cherry-pick anything not disclosed and make a false or misleading narrative out of it.

So, the country is going to have the evidence. They're going to have our report. And I'm enormously proud of what we have done and know I will be proud of the final result.

BASH: Well, I was going to ask you about that.

Jim Jordan has already said that he is going to -- he will be the chairman of the Judiciary Committee. He is -- likely. He is going to go through the evidence you left out. You're saying that there won't be evidence that will not be made public.

SCHIFF: The evidence will all be made public.

Now, we will have to make sure that we scrub that evidence for personally identifiable information, that the evidence that we provide protects people's security, it doesn't put them at risk. So there are things that we're going to have to do along those lines.

But, yes, we want to put the evidence before the American people, which supports the hearings that we have done, as well as the report that we will put out, and will be a comprehensive picture.

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