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With respect Mr. President, the problem is how often you watch TV, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office. https://t.co/NvZydYbnyW
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 24, 2017

Новые нападки Трампа на Адама Шиффа связаны с неплохим воскресным интервью на CBS.

JOHN DICKERSON: Congressman, you are a former prosecutor. What did you make of the president's comments to the New York Times that he thought it would be a violation if the special counsel went looking into his finances?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I had a couple impressions. First, the president is clearly worried that Bob Mueller's going to be looking into allegations, for example, that the Russians may have laundered money through the Trump organization. That is really something in my opinion he needs to look at. Because what concerns me the most is anything that could be held over the president's head that could influence U.S. policy. That would be among the most powerful form of kompromat. So I think it is something he needs to look at. It's something plainly the president is very concerned about but clearly within the scope of Bob Mueller's investigation. And I'll say this in light of all the talk about Jeff Sessions lately. It does concern me that the president should bring this up now if it's an indication that he wants to somehow push Sessions out and get in a new attorney general who would then take Rod Rosenstein's place as supervising the Mueller investigation. If this is part of a longer-term stratagem to define or confine the scope of the Mueller investigation, that would be very concerning.
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JOHN DICKERSON: Has what you've looked at in the course of your work suggested that that pattern has more than just a possibility but that there's some evidence behind it?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I don't want to comment on the evidence. But I do think we need to look at each and every instrumentality the Russians have used elsewhere, some that we know that were used here, and determine, are there other ways that the Russians have sought to exercise influence? Because at the end of the day we need to make sure that our president is operating not in his personal best interests and not because he's worried about what the Russians might have but because what he is doing is in America's best interest. The fact that we have questions about this is in itself harmful. But we need to get answers to them so that the country can be confident that the chief executive's doing the nation's business first and foremost.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-adam-schiff-on-face-the-nation-july-23-2017/

Пока Трамп нападает на Шиффа, канал RT ополчился против республиканского конгрессмена Эда Ройса, председателя комиссии по международным отношениям. В обоснование новых санкций против России Ройс пишет:

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has actively undermined U.S. national security for years. Putin has a long record of aggressive acts that threaten global stability. Russia’s disgraceful bombing campaign shored up the Assad regime, lengthening a civil war that has killed or displaced millions of people. It also continues to prevent peace by helping rebels in eastern Ukraine. While doing all of this, Putin has used disinformation and cyberattacks as weapons against democratic states, seeking to undermine elections – including here in the United States – and splinter the NATO alliance. Putin and his cronies must face serious consequences for these dangerous and threatening acts.
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/week-house-set-ratchet-sanctions-north-korea-russia-iran/

Со свойственным ей остроумием Маргарита Симоньян заявила «Конгрессмен от Калифорнии призвал создать в США кибервойска из школьников и обвинил КГБ в успехе RT и Sputnik. Калифорния, напомню, — один из штатов, где разрешена продажа марихуаны.»
https://russian.rt.com/world/news/411800-simonyan-kongressmen-ssha-rt-kgb

Она реагировала на выступление Ройса в республиканской организации Ribon Society.

My great concern about Sputnik and RT television and especially the social media that’s being deployed is that you can monitor in all the former Soviet states the feelings about Putin and watch them increase arithmetically year after year in the Gallup polling. At the same time, you can also monitor the feelings about the UK and the United States and watch them plummet. It is successful not only because they are putting a billion dollars a year into it, but also because the KGB has become so damn effective at it. <...> One of the things we’re trying to do on the Foreign Affairs Committee is send a message of solidarity to our allies around the world. We should be on the right side of history and on the right side of human rights – standing up for freedom and explaining why it is so important around the globe. My hope is that we find our voice to do this. We will find those who want to do it in a bipartisan way and join us, but Republicans must lead. We are the party of Lincoln, and this is the foundation on which our party is based.
http://www.riponsociety.org/2017/07/we-should-be-on-the-right-side-of-history-and-on-the-right-side-of-human-rights/

В округ Ройса входят зажиточные районы большого Лос Анжелеса (La Habra, Brea, Anaheim Hills и т.д.) Хиллари Клинтон победила в нем с перевесом в почти 10%. Ныне там выстроилась целая очередь из демократов, которые в 2018 попытаются отобрать у Ройса его место в Конгрессе.

Philanthropist and Navy veteran Gil Cisneros, a Democrat, has entered the race to unseat Royce in the 39th Congressional District. <...> Cisneros, 46, is a former shipping and distribution manager at Frito-Lay who won a lottery jackpot of $266 million with his wife in 2010. Since then, the couple has started two nonprofits focused on education for Latino students and established scholarship programs in their names. <...> Cisneros joins two other Democratic challengers to Royce — pediatrician Mai Khanh Tran and education consultant and former chemistry professor Phil Janowicz — as well as independent candidate Julio Castañeda.
http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-ed-royce-challenger-gil-1500080377-htmlstory.html