Rep. Adam Schiff: Midnight in Washington
Published 2021-10-22
Prior to the 2016 election, congressman Schiff had been sounding the alarm over the threat posed by a global resurgence of autocracy. As he led the probe into Trump’s Russia- and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, he came to the conclusion that the biggest threat to American democracy came from within—arguing that Trump’s presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the danger will remain for years to come. From being a prosecutor to a congressman known for bipartisanship to a liberal lighting rod and archenemy of the president, Adam Schiff tracks his own path to meeting the crisis he argues is severely imperiling America: the dangerous appeal of authoritarianism.
Join us as congressman Adam Schiff deepens our understanding of authoritarianism in the Trump administration and warns that, even after his defeat, the unleashed forces of autocracy remain as potent as ever.
Schiff photo by Roger Lis.
OCTOBER 14, 2021
SPEAKERS
Adam Schiff
U.S. Representative (D-CA); Author, Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
In Conversation with Marisa Lagos
Correspondent for California Politics and Government, KQED; Twitter @mlagos
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