WATCH: Sen. Schiff Continues Push to Hold Trump Administration Responsible for Illegal Iran War on MS NOW

"The big winner so far of the Iran war is not the United States. It's not Iran. It's not our Gulf allies that are seeing their urban, suburban facilities being bombed in retaliation. It's the Russians."

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MS NOW's The Briefing with Jen Psaki to discuss his push to hold the Trump administration responsible for the war in Iran and reiterate his call for key administration officials to testify under oath about the conflict.

Schiff also crowned Russia as "the unmitigated winners of this Iran war," saying the Trump administration has given Vladimir Putin a boon by relaxing sanctions and distracting from the war in Ukraine.

In addition, in light of the Trump administration's election interference efforts, Schiff highlighted how Democrats must empower voters to show up and show out in overwhelming numbers for the midterm elections.

View the full interview here.

Key Excerpts:

On the need for Trump Cabinet members to testify under oath:

[…] It's a chance to put people on the record.And since the administration has never come to the Congress for authorization for this war, as the Constitution requires, we at least need these Cabinet members to come before the American people in an open setting, not a classified setting, where they can deny they ever said it or they can accuse us of saying something we shouldn't.

On the Trump administration relaxing sanctions on Russia:

[…] I don't blame them for being afraid of the escalating oil and gas prices that they're causing. But the big winner so far of the Iran war is not the United States. It's not Iran. It's not our Gulf allies that are seeing their urban, suburban facilities being bombed in retaliation. It's the Russians. The Russians are already the unmitigated winners of this Iran war, because oil has appreciated so much in value. The Russian war coffers are now surging once again, and because we are now diverting resources to protect our allies and ourselves from the incoming from Iran, those interceptors are not going to be available for Ukraine.So, we've both taken the focus off Ukraine. We are not going to have the same number of supplies to give Ukraine, and Russia is going to have more money to make war against Ukraine. So, if there is a winner so far in this war, it's Russia.

On standing up against the Trump administration's efforts to interfere in the midterm elections:

[…] I think the subpoenas in Arizona, Maricopa County, the FBI raid in Georgia, this is all trying to establish some kind of phony predicate for them to say that the election system is so flawed, the machines don't work, there's too much fraud in absentee ballots, that come November, they can nationalize the elections.They can somehow outlaw absentee ballots, or they can seize ballot boxes, and they will have some pretext to do it. So, this is, I think, part of laying the foundation to interfere with, suppress the vote, or ultimately subvert the vote. They understand, as we do in the Democratic Party, that they are likely to get clobbered in the midterms. And they're willing to resort to anything. So, we are doing everything every day to anticipate, to push back, to fight back. And really, the best protection we have is not in the Congress, it's certainly not with the Supreme Court. It is those who have the most important title, and that is a voter. We need to so overwhelm the polls with Democratic votes that this election midterm is not even close.

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