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Q&A: Why Adam Schiff is not there yet on trying to impeach Trump

Rep. Adam B. Schiff, D-Calif., knows most California Democrats want to impeach President Donald Trump. In a poll released Wednesday by the Public Policy Institute of California, two-thirds of Democrats surveyed in California said they supported impeaching the president.

When Schiff took the stage Saturday night to address hundreds of California Democratic Party activists at their annual spring convention, the crowd was still chanting, "Impeach 45," egged on by Rep. Maxine Waters of Los Angeles who had preceded him.

Schiff knows how to read a crowd. He told them the president lacks morality and basic decency and called Trump unethical,

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