Schiff: 'What happened to you, Todd Blanche?'

You basically decided that you were going to be the lawyer for the president and the lawyer for the IRS and the Justice Department.As the court found in this case, there was no adversarial relationship.The court found it was a sham.It was a collusive relationship.And what I don't understand, Todd Blanche, what happened to the Todd Blanche who was a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York?

What happened to the prosecutor people had respect for?What happened to the prosecutor who once respected the rule of law?What happened to the prosecutor who said that there wouldn't be a whiff of political partisanship and then prosecutes the president's enemies over seashells, cases, over making a video stating the plain law and constitution?What happened to the Todd Blanche of the Southern District of New York that could convert him into you, someone willing to say the president has both the right and the duty to prosecute his political enemies.I cannot imagine that Todd Blanche of the old days would have ever done that.What happened to you, Todd Blanche?

I'll tell you this, I think Robert Caro had it right when he said that power doesn't corrupt as much as it reveals.I suspect it has just revealed who you are and who you are as someone willing to sacrifice everything you once believed in for that title, for that position of Attorney General.And it is a sad story that we have seen from Trump appointee after appointee after appointee.We have seen people compromise themselves little by little and then a lot by a lot until they're sitting before this committee and trying to justify the unjustifiable.