{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.schiff.senate.gov/news/press-releases/watch-sen-schiff-calls-out-gop-attacks-on-jack-smith-refusal-to-acknowledge-trumps-conspiracies-on-ms-nows-all-in-with-chris-hayes/", "WATCH: Sen. Schiff Calls Out GOP Attacks on Jack Smith, Refusal to Acknowledge Trump\u2019s Conspiracies on MS NOW\u2019s All In with Chris Hayes", "2026-09-29", "2026", "2026-09", "Democrat", "Senate", "CA", "Adam B. Schiff", "S001150", "www.schiff.senate.gov", "schiff", "https://www.schiff.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MS NOW\u2019s All In with Chris Hayes and called out Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans\u2019 repeated attacks on Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led investigations into the events of January 6, 2021, and the case involving classified documents being stored at President Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home.\n\nSchiff exposed Republicans\u2019 refusal to acknowledge President Trump\u2019s conspiracies relating to January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigations during a Senate Judiciary hearing earlier today with Jack Smith. He also denounced Republicans for ignoring the Trump administration\u2019s attempted indictments against Democratic Members of Congress.\n\nAt the hearing earlier today, Schiff pledged to make a motion to subpoena Volume II of Jack Smith\u2019s report at the committee\u2019s next meeting.\n\nView the full interview here.\n\nKey Excerpts:\n\nOn Republican\u2019s attacks on Jack Smith\u2019s investigations, Sen. Schmitt\u2019s exchange:\n\nThey teach you in law school not to ask a question you don\u2019t know the answer to when you\u2019re cross-examining someone. I don\u2019t always agree with that philosophy. Sometimes you have to take a risk and ask a question you don\u2019t know the answer to, but you generally don\u2019t want to accuse someone of perjury and call them a dirtbag if you don\u2019t know your facts. That\u2019s pretty basic, and the point where I knew they made a colossal screw up was after Schmitt had gone through his \u201cYou\u2019re a dirtbag and you\u2019re clearly concealing and boy have we got you you\u2019re in trouble for perjury.\u201d Right after that, I was sitting at the end of the dais because I\u2019m the junior member, so therefore I was closest to Jack Smith, and he must have been given a copy of that poster board, so he actually got to look at it for the first time. And he turned to me, I think, because I was closest, and mouthed, \u201cI can explain. I think I can explain this.\u201d So, it wasn\u2019t my turn, but I piped up anyway. Can we give the chance, give this witness a chance to explain now that he\u2019s seen the document? And Amy Klobuchar took it from there, and she did a masterful job. And just watching that footage now of him at that game in Maryland is the icing on the cake. But I think it did something really important. You know, aside from the impact on Eric Schmitt, it showed just how over the top, and ill-considered, and ill-thought-out all of these heinous attacks of Jack Smith have been.\n\nThe others may not have blown up as spectacularly, but they\u2019re equally meritless. This is a class act, a dedicated prosecutor, and what I found so interesting also through all of this is the Republicans have never contested the overwhelming evidence of Trump\u2019s guilt on both of those charges, Mar-a-Lago and January 6th, because they can\u2019t. Smith has made it clear he had proof beyond a reasonable doubt. We certainly saw a lot of that evidence in the January 6 hearings. They don\u2019t contest any of it because they can\u2019t. They want to attack Smith instead, and we saw that spectacularly blow up in their face today.\n\nOn refusing to call out President Trump\u2019s conspiracy theories:\n\n[\u2026] And this is not the first time we\u2019ve had a hearing of this nature. That is a hearing to try to discredit Smith\u2019s investigation of Mar-a-Lago on January 6. We\u2019ve had multiple hearings now. They never contest the facts of the president\u2019s guilt. They don\u2019t try to claim, oh, the president never pressured Georgia to find 11,780 votes that don\u2019t exist because there\u2019s a recording of him doing it. They don\u2019t contest Trump telling his own Justice Department at the time when they rebutted all these false claims of fraud that Trump tells Justice just say the elections were corrupt and let the Republican congressmen do the rest. They don\u2019t contest that. They don\u2019t contest all the classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. They don\u2019t contest his trying to hide that evidence. They don\u2019t contest his trying to do away with the security footage while they\u2019re trying to hide those boxes. They don\u2019t contest any of that because they can\u2019t. Instead, they vilify Jack Smith. They basically leak documents from the Justice Department, and the chairman calls it a whistleblower. But it\u2019s just DOJ leaking documents before every hearing so that they can try to pretend they\u2019re significant and take attention away from the facts.\n\nOn Republicans\u2019 not calling out Trump\u2019s attempted indictments against Democratic Members of Congress:\n\n[\u2026] And here they are, protesting with such indignation that Jack Smith sought these toll records, not the contents of calls, but the toll records, not because they were targets of an investigation, but because co-conspirators like Rudy Giuliani and the president were calling them as January 6 was going on. They take great umbrage at all of that, but their colleagues are the subject of a grand jury investigation, the Justice Department sought to indict them very much right in the target bullseye, and the grand jury says no, that\u2019s total BS. Not a single grand juror goes along with the prosecutors, and these Republicans on the Judiciary Committee don\u2019t say boo about it. They could care less about it. I mean, it is staggering. Can you imagine if there was an effort to indict one of them and a grand jury turned them down, the prosecutors down completely? What kind of hue and cry there would be? 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