WATCH: “Weak to the Point of Frivolous:” Sen. Schiff Calls Out Todd Blanche’s New Comey Indictment, Previews Upcoming Vote to Block Trump’s Illegal Iran War

Washington, D.C. – Tonight, U.S. Senator Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) joined MS NOW’s All In with Chris Hayes to condemn the Justice Department’s baseless second attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey and call out Todd Blanche’s blatant attempt to earn Donald Trump’s nomination for Attorney General. In light of today marking 60 days since Trump first launched his illegal war on Iran, Schiff also previewed his upcoming War Powers Resolution to withdraw the armed forces from the war in Iran and urged his Republican colleagues to support the effort. The vote will be on the Senate Floor tomorrow. View the full interview here . Key Excerpts: On Trump’s Justice Department pursuing vindictive cases against Trump’s political enemies: […] I was a federal prosecutor for almost six years. I never saw a case even remotely this weak. It is weak to the point of frivolous, this seashell case. And I think the only real question is, does it get dismissed before there’s a trial, or does James Comey have to go through the exercise of a trial before the case is disposed of by the jury. But it does show the lengths to which Blanche is willing to go, the acting Attorney General, is willing to go to try to get the permanent job. And I think there’s an enormously strong case for a vindictive prosecution – if you can’t prove that here, I don’t know what case would qualify. But it may also just simply fail to state a viable offense on the facts that they presented. […] These cases are just absurd. And so, they failed under Bondi to get a conviction or even get a trial against James Comey. Now they’re bringing even weaker cases forward. So, that’s a step in the wrong direction, and in that respect, it is worse. Will it be worse in terms of the handling of the Epstein files? Really too early to tell. Todd Blanche was really every bit as bad as Pam Bondi. Was he worse? I’m not sure. He may be worse in this respect. He’s far more competent than Pam Bondi. He puts a better public spin on things than Pam Bondi. So, in that sense, he is perhaps more dangerous. And for that reason, maybe Trump will prefer him. On the 60-day mark of the Iran War and the need to stop Trump’s war in Iran: […] I have one coming up tomorrow, and tomorrow just may be different. We’ll see. And I say that because under the War Powers Act, after 60 days, if the president hasn’t gotten an authorization to use force or asked for an extension for the purpose of removing troops from battle, then the war must come to an end, and several of my Republican colleagues have cited that 60 day threshold as important to them. Well, tomorrow, at midnight, it will be 60 days, and tomorrow they will have a vote on my War Powers Resolution, so we’ll see whether they adhere to what they have said about that 60-day clock. Now, I disagree with some of the premise of their argument, which is they believe the president properly began the war because there was some kind of a threat from Iran. I don’t think there was any imminent threat. So, in my view, it was illegal from the beginning. But even using their own logic, it is illegal after 60 days barring the passage of an authorization bill which is not going to happen tomorrow. So, the War Powers Act tomorrow, I think, gives us our best shot at getting some Republican votes. On the Trump administration owning the energy crisis in California and across the nation: It is very strange the way they talk about California. It is even worse, how they cancel renewable energy projects in California and all kinds of things that would bring down energy costs. In fact, they went to the length of canceling a wind project in Morro Bay and paying the company in taxpayer dollars to invest instead in a gas or oil project. So, they’re literally paying renewable energy firms to go into gas and oil instead. That’s how hostile they are, not just to our state, but to the idea of renewable energy. So, they have full ownership of this energy crisis, full ownership of the high gas prices, full ownership of the increase in utility bills. It is all on them and just getting worse. ###