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When asked if he would testify if subpoenaed, a move Trump and Republicans unhappy with how the inquiry was handled in the House have proposed, Schiff said, \"I'm not a fact witness.\"

On whether former Vice President Joe or his son, Hunter Biden, should have to testify, Schiff said the impeachment trial should focus on questions around the president's conduct with Ukraine and that the Bidens don't have insight to the president's decisions.

NEW: \"I'm not a fact witness so other than mollifying the president, I'm not sure why the Senate would call me or Nancy Pelosi as a witness,\" Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff tells @TheView when asked if he would testify if he was subpoenaed. https://t.co/8PwucnWpWi pic.twitter.com/HJI9ZCnnQa

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\"It would convert the Senate trial into the same kind of a sham proceeding that the president sought to have Ukraine undertake,\" he said.

\"There's been no factual basis for these allegations against Joe Biden, no factual basis. That is a Russian propaganda talking point. To ask the Senate to do these investigations that the president fraudulently sought to get Ukraine to conduct would merely turn the Senate trial on its head. Now, that's something that the president would love but that's not a fair trial. That's a sham trial.\"

On Iran, Schiff said the intelligence he’s been briefed on doesn’t justify the president’s decision to kill Iran's top general, Qassem Solemaini, in a drone strike.

He specifically said he hasn’t seen any evidence Solemaini was planning to attack four U.S. embassies as the president has said and argued that the resulting risk to American servicemen and women is not justified.

“I don't think the evidence, the intelligence, justifies the targeted killing of a loathsome, and yes, bloodthirsty person but justified the targeting killing of Soleimani if it was going to increase the risk to Americans,” he said.

In a tweet Monday morning, President Trump insisted that he was acting to prevent an imminent attack in ordering the killing of Soleimani but then in the next sentence argues that it “really doesn’t matter” because of Soleimani’s “horrible past!” Trump misspelled \"imminent\" as \"eminent.\"

@realDonaldTrump: The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was “eminent” or not, & was my team in agreement. The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn’t really matter because of his horrible past!

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