Adam Schiff: Dems wanted Russian agent Maria Butina to testify but GOPers refused...

[DonViejo]

Adam Schiff: Dems wanted Russian agent Maria Butina to testify but GOPers refused because it would ‘tarnish the NRA’

DAVID EDWARDS
19 JUL 2018 AT 09:24 ET

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, said on Thursday that Democrats tried to call Russian agent Maria Butina to testify but Republicans refused because they worried that she would “tarnish the NRA.”

During an interview on CNN, host Alisyn Camerota asked Schiff if he was aware that Butina tried to establish backchannel communications between then-candidate Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We certainly knew about her and part of the role she was playing we didn’t know whether she was an agent of a foreign power,” Schiff explained, adding that the committee had email correspondence that talked about “setting up a secret back channel through the NRA.”

“We heard credible allegations that the Russians may have been funneling money through the NRA so, yes, we wanted to pursue this but like many other things,” he continued. “When it got too hot, the Republican reaction was, ‘We don’t want to know. We’d rather not know.'”

“But just to be clear,” Camerota pressed. “You’re saying that your Republican colleagues on the committee called her and said do not come in? How exactly did they block her sharing information with you?”

Schiff replied: “During the course of time when they were actively in the investigation, the majority that is, we said let’s bring in Maria Butina, here are the reasons why we should hear from her, here are the reasons why we should hear from Paul Erickson who is alleged to have been involved in setting up this secret back channel.”

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/adam-schiff-dems-wanted-russian-agent-maria-butina-testify-gopers-refused-tarnish-nra/

[BSdetect]

1. The gop is running a protection racket. Traitors.

[FM123]

4. This!!! Could not have said it better myself.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

2. Pretty damning all on it's own.

Unreal that we had to sit by and witness grains of sand from Benghazi testify for 6 years but they got through this quick. Should have said..."We're afraid it'll tarnish us CRIMINALLY through the NRA."

[tavernier]

3. So we can't legitimately call ourselves the United States of America anymore.

We need a new title. What will trump or McConnel or perhaps the new SCOTUS name us now?

[bdamomma]

5. the GOP

is a thuggish crime family. They need to be thrown out.

[Scurrilous]

6. K&R

[spanone]

7. wouldn't want to embarrass those republicans who chose to sleep with her for state secrets

[ramblin_dave]

8. Already voted down

Link to tweet

[RandomAccess]

9. "That which can be destroyed by the truth,

should be."

- P.C. Hodgell

[dchill]

10. +1,000,000

[Perseus]

11. The media needs to start attacking the republicans who refuse to act

What is the reason most republicans will not act?
1. Start the meme about possible incrimination with the Russia fiasco. Are they compromised?
2. Question their loyalty to the country, their patriotism.
3. When they interview them, show them videos of them going against Obama for stupid things like the tan suit. There is so much to show on their hypocrisy.
4. Don't allow them to dance around the questions, just stop them and ask them to answer the question.
4.1 Prepare a lot of "Yes/No" questions.
4.2 Using their prior actions/comments against democrats, make them accountable for their actions today.
5. Call them out when they get invitations to appear on MSNBC and they decline, and ask the question, why not? What are they hiding?
6. Call them out on the rhetoric & bullshit
6.1 "Family Values"
6.2 "Fiscal Responsibility" - Show historic economic charts showing how the always screw up the economy.
6.2.1 Why is it that gas prices ALWAYS go up when republicans are in power?
6.2.2 Why is it that jobs flee the country when they are in power?
6.2.3 Why is it that almost every week there is a scandal from a republican?

I can go on, and on...there is so much the media can do to uncover these thugs.

I believe that the man-child has compromised many of the republicans in congress, they are all afraid they will spend many years in jail, I cannot find any other explanation.