Live updates: Schiff calls Patel a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ says Pelosi ‘recovering from the surgery well’

12/15/24 03:07 PM ET

Schiff doesn’t want a preemptive pardon from Biden

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon from President Biden for his work on the Jan. 6 select committee.

In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Schiff whether he thinks President-elect Trump’s administration will not actually prosecute members of the Jan. 6 select committee, as he has threatened to do.

“I don’t know what the Trump administration will do, but it’s for a couple of reasons,” Schiff said about why he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon.

“First, those of us on the committee are very proud of the work we did. We were doing vital quintessential oversight of a violent attack on the Capitol,” Schiff said. “So I think it’s unnecessary.”

“But second, the precedent of giving blanket pardons, preemptive blanket pardons on the way out of an administration, I think is a precedent we don’t want to set,” he added.

Adam Schiff on why he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon from Biden

Sen. Schiff says Pelosi ‘recovering from the surgery well’ after accident in Europe

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Sunday the former Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), is recovering “well” from her surgery after falling in Europe.

“I communicated with her daughter, Christine, and I understand that she’s recovering from the surgery well,” Schiff said on ABC News’s “This Week,” when asked about his close ally’s condition.

“So, our thoughts are going out to her. She’s an amazing person and, as strong and as tough as she is, I know she’ll be back on her feet soon.”

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said Kash Patel, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, is a “conspiracy theorist” who is “not qualified” for the post.

“Well, let me just say, with respect to some of the nominees like Kash Patel, this is someone in my view who’s not qualified to be FBI director and someone who claimed, for example, that he wanted to shut down FBI headquarters early in his tenure and open a museum to the deep state. So, this is a conspiracy theorist,” Schiff said on ABC News’s “This Week.”

“It’s also someone I think who demonstrated, sadly, a principle of the first Trump administration and that is you rise to the level of your sycophancy. And the bigger the sycophant, the higher you rise. He’s risen pretty high but that’s not what we’re looking for.”

‘I don’t think history will remember Mitt Romney’

(you'll be remembered but not for anything good)

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) joined CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday for his Congressional exit interview, noting that he thinks his political legacy will be a “footnote” in the history books.

Romney, 77, was asked by host Jake Tapper about how he wants to be remembered for his time serving the country.

“I don’t think history will remember Mitt Romney,” he replied, adding “It’s a footnote for somebody who’s reading ancient history.”

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