Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said Sunday an impeachment of President Donald Trump could set an unwelcome precedent.
In an interview on NBC News’ “Meet The Press,” Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,” said any impeachment by the House would be nullified by the GOP-led Senate.
“I worry equally about the message of taking an impeachment case to trial, losing that case, having the president acquitted, and then having an adjudication that this conduct is not impeachable,” he said.
"The jury I'm most worried about, not the Senate, because I think that's a preordained conclusion, is the American people. Can we make the case to the American people?
“I want to make sure that's true before we go down that path because it's going to occupy a year of the nation's time."
According to Schiff, the House process so far would be “most accurately described as preliminary to a judicial proceeding, that proceeding being a potential impeachment.”
“The most important thing is to obtain the grand jury material, to see the evidence,” he said.
“There’s no making the case to the cult of the president's personality that is the Senate GOP, but we should at least be able to make the case to the American people,” he added. “And I'd like to see the evidence so I'm confident that we can do that before we say we're ready to charge the president of the United States."
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