COURT HE IS RUNNING.

>> Sandra: HE IS UNDER FIRE,

THE HOUSE INTEL CHAIR FACING

GROWING CRITICISM FOR HIS

HANDLING OF THE IMPEACHMENT

INQUIRY.

173 REPUBLICANS ARE BACKING

THIS MOVEMENT TO CENSURE SCHIFF.

OUR NEXT GUEST WAS THE ONE TO

BRING THAT MOTION FORWARD AND

LEAD THAT CHARGE.

CONGRESSMAN ANDY BIGGS CHAIRMAN

OF THE HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS.

MR. CHAIRMAN, GOOD MORNING AND

WELCOME TO YOU.

>> GOOD MORNING, SANDRA.

>> Sandra: WE BEGIN ANOTHER

WEEK.

UPDATE US ON WHERE THINGS STAND

THIS MORNING.

>> YOU'LL SEE TONIGHT WE'LL

HAVE THIS CENSURE MOTION GO

FORWARD ON A VOTE.

THEN THE REST OF THE WEEK THERE

IS A NUMBER OF HEARINGS

SCHEDULED THAT ARE CLOSED DOOR

BEHIND THIS CONTINUATION OF

THIS SOVIET-STYLE IMPEACHMENT

INQUIRY AND THEN THERE WILL BE

A BREAK LATER THIS WEEK BECAUSE

OF REPRESENTATIVE CUMMINGS

FUNERAL THAT WILL TAKE PLACE

LATE IN THE WEEK.

IT WILL BE A SHORTENED WEEK BUT

FILLED WITH CLOSED-DOOR

HEARINGS IN THE INTELLIGENCE

COMMITTEE AGAIN.

>> Sandra: WHAT IS THIS MOVE,

THIS CHARGE YOU'RE LEADING NOW

173 REPUBLICANS ON BOARD?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

WHAT IS THE IMPACT OF IT?

IS IT LARGELY SYMBOLIC?

>> WELL, IT'S TWO THINGS.

WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE

AMERICAN PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT

ADAM SCHIFF IS DOING IS NOT THE

NORMAL WAY THAT YOU CONDUCT AN

IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY IF THAT'S

WHAT IT WERE.

THE SECOND THING IS IT LETS MR.

SCHIFF KNOW HIMSELF HOW

DISAPPOINTED WE ARE AND THIRDLY

I WOULD SAY IT GIVES THE

DEMOCRATS AN OPPORTUNITY TO

SHOW THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WHERE

THEY ARE ON DUE PROCESS AND

THEY GET TO SAY LOOK, WE'RE

PERFECTLY CONTENT WITH

CLOSED-DOOR IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY

OR THEY GET TO SAY IT ISN'T

QUITE RIGHT WE WANT TO DO IT

THE RIGHT WAY.

IT IS FILLED WITH A LOT OF

SYMBOLISM BUT THE HARSH REALITY

TO IT AS WELL.

>> Sandra: WE DIDN'T SEE MUCH

OF ADAM SCHIFF OVER THE WEEKEND.

HE DIDN'T APPEAR ON THE SUNDAY

SHOWS.

YOU HAVEN'T HEARD FROM HIM.

WE DUG BACK IN OCTOBER 16th

TWEET IN WHICH ADAM SCHIFF

HIMSELF ON HIS OWN ACCOUNT SAID

THIS.

HERE ARE THE ACTUAL FACTS.

REPUBLICAN MEMBERS AND THEIR

COUNSEL ARE PRESENT FOR ALL

COMMITTEE DEPOSITIONS AND

HEARINGS AND HAVE THE SAME

OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS OF

ALL THE WITNESSES AS THE

MAJORITY.

AND REST ASSURED THE PUBLIC

WILL LEARN THE FACTS.

OBVIOUSLY RESPONDING TO PUBLIC

CRITICISM THROUGHOUT THIS

HASN'T BEEN A TRANSPARENT

PROCESS AND THIS IMPEACHMENT

PROCESS HAS BEEN DONE IN SECRET.

TO THAT YOU SAY WHAT?

>> NORMALLY WHEN YOU HAVE A

FORMAL -- IF THIS WERE FORMAL

AO *IDSED THE PRESIDENT WOULD

HAVE HIS COUNSEL THERE AND

BRING IN WITNESSES.

THE REPUBLICANS WOULD BE ABLE

TO BRING IN WITNESSES AND OPEN

DOOR AND TRANSPARENT.

YOU COULD WATCH IT REALTIME.

PART OF WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS

TYPE OF SETTING NORMALLY THE

AMERICAN PEOPLE GET TO JUDGE

THE VERACITY AND CREDIBILITY OF

WITNESSES.

WE'RE BEING DENIED ALL OF THAT.

WE CAN'T EVEN GET THE

TRANSCRIPTS.

WHEN HE SAYS WE'LL SEE IT

ULTIMATELY WHO WILL BE THE

FILTER THROUGH WHICH WE SEE

THAT?

ADAM SCHIFF.

HE HAS PREVENTED ME AND MANY OF

MY COLLEAGUES WHO ASKED FOR

COPIES OF TRANSCRIPTS AND WE

JUST DON'T GET THEM.

WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST TO YOU,

SANDRA, THIS IS BEING DIRECTED

AND PUT -- IT'S BEING

CHANNELIZED AND ABLE TO CONTROL

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS INSTEAD

OF LETTING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE

SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.

>> Sandra: HE WROTE A LETTER TO

COLLEAGUES THIS PAST WEEK.

HE SAID THE SPECIAL COUNSEL'S

IN NIXON AND CLINTON

IMPEACHMENTS CONDUCTED THEIR

INVESTIGATIONS IN PRIVATE AND

WE MUST INITIALLY DO THE SAME.

BACKING UP HIS CASE HE MADE ON

MULTIPLE OCCASIONS, IN ORDER TO

DO WHAT HE AND DEMOCRATS ARE

TRYING TO DO THEY MUST DO IT IN

PRIVATE.

>> THAT'S EASY FOR HIM TO SAY

BUT THIS THING HAS BEEN GOING

ON FOR 3 1/2 YEARS.

HE HIMSELF HAS BASICALLY

TAINTED THE WELL HERE BECAUSE

HE IS THE GUY WHO SAID FOR TWO

YEARS THERE WAS ABSOLUTE CLEAR

EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION AND THEN

TURNS OUT THAT WASN'T TRUE.

THEN HE HAS GONE FORWARD TIME

AFTER TIME WITH MISLEADING

STATEMENTS RIGHT UP TO THE

OPENING STATEMENT HE GAVE IN

HIS OWN HEARING.

IT ISN'T REVIEW HIM AS A FAIR

ARBITER.

IT'S PART OF WHAT THIS GOES TO

AND WHY ADAM SCHIFF IS NOT

BEING RESPECTED BY THE MAJORITY

HERE.

WHAT HAPPENED IN THOSE PREVIOUS

TWO HEARINGS YOU HAD BIPARTISAN

SUPPORT FOR A FORMAL INQUIRY.

THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU HAVE HERE

BECAUSE THEY'VE NEVER TAKEN THE

VOTE AND ADAM SCHIFF LIKE I

SAY, POISONED THE WELL HERE.

>> Sandra: WE HAVE ANOTHER BIG

WEEK COMING UP.

WE PUT TOGETHER THE WITNESSES

THAT WILL BE CALLED FORWARD.

TUESDAY WILLIAM TAYLOR, ACTING

U.S. AMBASSADOR TO UKRAINE.

SOME NAMES WE DON'T AND SOME WE

DON'T.

THURSDAY TIM MORRIS.

IT WILL BE ANOTHER WEEK FILLED

WITH WITNESSES THAT WILL BE

BROUGHT BEFORE THESE COMMITTEES

IN THE IMPEACHMENT PROCESS.

FINE AT THOUGHTS AS WE AWAIT

THE VOTE BY YOU ON THAT

RESOLUTION TONIGHT TO CENSURE

ADAM SCHIFF AND BEGIN ANOTHER

WEEK OF HEARING FROM WITNESSES

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS.

>> THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO

UNDERSTAND MY MOTION WILL GO

STRAIGHT UP.

THE DEMOCRATS WILL RUN A

BASICALLY PROCEDURAL MOVE TO

TRY TO KEEP US FROM HAVING A

STRAIGHT-UP VOTE.

IT WILL LOOK UPSIDE DOWN.