“Sure, we’ll present proof of the President’s involvement on this scheme. We’ll additionally once more present proof about what his personal legal professionals got here to consider this scheme,” the California Democrat advised CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union.” “And we’ll present brave state officers who stood up and stated they would not associate with this plan to both name legislators again into session or decertify the outcomes for Joe Biden.”
When requested by Bash particularly if the committee investigating the January 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol had proof Trump directed the faux electors scheme, Schiff responded, “I do not wish to get forward of our listening to.”
“We’ll present in the course of the listening to what the President’s function was in attempting to get states to call alternate slates of electors, how that scheme depended initially on hopes that the legislators would reconvene and bless it,” he stated, including, “We’ll present you what we learn about his function on this.”
Schiff additionally stated the committee nonetheless has “a number of key folks now we have not interviewed we wish to” and will nonetheless probably subpoena former Vice President Mike Pence as a part of its investigation.
“(He is) definitely a risk,” Schiff stated. “We’re not excluding anybody or something at this level.”
Additionally Sunday, one other Home January 6 panelist stated there wanted to be “accountability” for the wrongdoing displayed in proof and testimony earlier than the choose committee, however stopped wanting calling on the Division of Justice to cost Trump.
Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland advised NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “accountability can imply two issues. One is particular person legal accountability that individuals pay for his or her specific crimes, as greater than 800 folks have already been prosecuted for the whole lot from assaulting a federal officer to interfering with a federal continuing to seditious conspiracy.”
“However accountability additionally means collective accountability, and that is the true challenge,” he continued. “Telling the reality to the folks so we are able to make selections about the best way to fortify democratic establishments going ahead.”
In the meantime, when requested by Bash in regards to the January 6 committee’s determination to not flip over paperwork associated to its investigation to the DOJ, Schiff defended the panel’s stance, saying, “I do not assume Congress has ever executed that.”
“I have been collaborating now in a number of investigations the place there have been parallel investigations executed by the Justice Division. Congress by no means says, ‘Hey, Justice Division, different department of presidency, simply come and undergo our information.’ We additionally do not say, ‘Hey, we wish to go over and simply rifle by your information,'” he stated.
Schiff stated the committee will work with the DOJ and “need them to achieve success in bringing folks to justice, however I am unable to go into the personal conversations.”
When pressed by Bash on why the committee hasn’t known as on witnesses who may problem the panel, Schiff defended the committee’s alternative of witnesses.
“We’re interviewing, frankly, anybody that has related proof,” he stated. “We’re placing that related proof earlier than the general public, and we’re doing it in a method that’s the most cohesive and that we are able to get throughout the salient factors to the general public.”
“We wish to know what she is aware of, what her involvement was on this plot to overturn the election,” Schiff stated. “She has stated that she is keen to come back in and testify voluntarily. We’re glad to listen to that.”
Schiff on Sunday advised CNN that Justice Thomas ought to have “nothing to do” with circumstances associated to the riot.
“I feel that at a minimal, it suggests — and I feel we all know sufficient to say this already — that Justice Thomas, to keep away from even the looks of impropriety, ought to don’t have anything to do with any circumstances regarding January 6, significantly … concerning our investigation,” he stated.
CNN’s Aaron Pellish contributed to this report.
