{"id":36316,"date":"2019-03-29T02:58:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36316"},"modified":"2019-03-29T02:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T02:58:44","slug":"chairman-schiff-lays-it-on-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36316","title":{"rendered":"Chairman Schiff lays it on the line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rep. Schiff: You Might Say That&#039;s All OK. But I Don&#039;t Think It&#039;s OK.\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r8gAYUupm2k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have watched this soliloquy a couple of times. I consider it quite compelling.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who Donald Trump has ridiculed with a tasteless nickname. He also has bastardized his name.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff responds in this video to his nine Republican committee colleagues who have signed a letter demanding his resignation from the committee chairmanship.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff responded with a controlled sense of seething at the gall of his GOP colleagues, one of whom happens to be Devin Nunes, who chaired the committee until this year.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff stands by his belief that there was &#8220;collusion&#8221; between the Trump campaign and Russians who interfered with our electoral system. He recites chapter and verse the events of that campaign that has caused so much angst.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s only a little more than 5 minutes long. I found it fascinating. You might, too.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have watched this soliloquy a couple of times. I consider it quite compelling. The speaker is House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, a California Democrat who Donald Trump has ridiculed with a tasteless nickname. He also has bastardized his name. Schiff responds in this video to his nine Republican committee colleagues who have signed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chairman Schiff lays it on the line<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7014,7131,1424,2180,7093],"class_list":["post-36316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-adam-schiff","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-house-intelligence-committee","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36317,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36316\/revisions\/36317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}