3/29/2019

DEMS/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “When Adam Schiff was poised to take over the House Intelligence Committee late last year, he spoke about his desire to restore comity to the panel after two years of infighting over the Russian investigation. Three months into the new Democratic Congress, the committee’s partisan warfare is more intense than ever. Schiff, the 10-term California Democrat, became the face of Democrats’ probing of President Donald Trump during the first two years of his presidency, elevating his national profile and making Schiff a staple on TV and in op-ed pages whenever new developments were revealed about contacts between Trump associates and Russians. But now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s team and the Russian government, according to a summary released Sunday by Attorney General Bill Barr, the Republicans who long bristled at Schiff have dialed their attacks up to 11. Trump attacked Schiff at his rally Thursday and tweeted that he should resign from Congress.”

Jeremy Herb, “Republican fury aimed at Schiff, face of the Russia investigation,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, March 29, 2019 6:15 am