GOP/HOUSE OF REPS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump and Republicans have harangued House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, accusing him of lying to the country and demanding his resignation. But the senior Republican who spearheaded the call for Schiff to step down now says those disagreements are ‘water under the bridge.’ GOP Rep. Mike Conaway, the mild-mannered Texan who led the committee’s hotly politicized Russia probe last year, is suddenly praising Schiff for creating a newfound sense of comity on the Intelligence Committee — reflected in the committee’s bipartisan request for all of special counsel Robert Mueller’s files…Conaway’s comments come as GOP leaders and top committee Republicans rail against Democrat-led investigations targeting Trump. Conaway led the call among all committee Republicans for Schiff to resign as chairman, taking the extraordinary step of announcing the GOP push to oust Schiff during a March hearing. The resignations calls followed Attorney General William Barr’s four-page letter stating that Mueller didn’t find evidence that Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia during the 2016 election. That finding led to a broad Republican attack on Schiff — a frequent cable TV presence who has highlighted the damaging information that emerged throughout Mueller’s investigation — that Trump himself has parroted for weeks, including Thursday [5-9-19].”
–Kyle Cheney and Andrew Desiderio, “House Intel Republicans offer rare praise for Adam Schiff,” Politico, May 10, 2019 9:26 am