“We used to joke in L.A.-not just myself, but other members,” he told me in an interview the other day-“that if you wanted to get on the local news, it wasn’t enough to kill someone you had to also be in a high-speed chase.”
Not so long ago, Schiff was just one among California’s 53-member House delegation, contending for recognition in the nation’s most populous state and one of its biggest media markets. “That idea holds that we are a nation of laws, not of men.” ET, his jaw set and his voice thick with emotion. “What is at risk here is the very idea of America,” Schiff said just after 8 p.m. On Wednesday night, he had pride of place as the Democrats’ closing speaker before the impeachment vote. Perhaps that’s because, at this signal moment in history, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff himself realizes that he has emerged as one of the most familiar names and faces in all of American politics.
Only when one of his Republican colleagues, Representative Lee Zeldin of New York, described President Donald Trump’s impeachment as “a total Schiff show” did the target allow himself the barest chuckle. He wore his regulation uniform of a dark suit, crisp white shirt, and bright-blue tie. H e stood for hours on the House floor, solemn and ramrod-straight.
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