text: House Intelligence Committee ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) arrives for a Democratic caucus meeting in the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center November 14, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images 
   
   Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democrat from California who is likely to be the next chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that President Trump could very well face jail time following the latest disclosure that laid out how prosecutors believe he orchestrated illegal payments during his presidential campaign. “There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him,” Schiff said on CBS’ Face the Nation. “That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time.” 
   
   Schiff noted that while there has long been talk about Trump offering to pardon people to motivate them to keep silent, the real question may be whether the next president will pardon Trump. “We have been discussing the issue of pardons the president may offer to people or dangle in front of people,” Schiff said. “The bigger pardon question may come down the road, as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump.” 
   
   .@AdamSchiff on the Russia Investigation: My takeaway is there's a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office the justice department may indict him. That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time. pic.twitter.com/3kfwumFkh7 — Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) December 9, 2018 
   
   Schiff wasn’t the only Democrat to highlight the seriousness of the allegations that were laid out in Friday’s court filings. Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York said that if the claims that Trump directed his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, to make illegal payments to women during the presidential campaign “they would be impeachable offenses.” A different matter though is whether the payments were so important that they justify taking such a strong action. “Whether they’re important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question,” Nadler, who will likely be the next chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said on CNN. “Certainly, they’re impeachable offenses, because, even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office.” Nadler made sure to emphasize that “you don’t necessarily launch an impeachment against the President because he committed an impeachable offense,” ||||| White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that President Trump Donald John TrumpCorsi sues Mueller for alleged leaks and illegal surveillance Comey: Trump 'certainly close' to being unindicted co-conspirator Trump pushes back on reports that Ayers was first pick for chief of staff MORE did not know of the plan to arrest a top executive of a Chinese tech firm before it happened. 
   
   "He did not know," Kudlow said on "Fox News Sunday," when asked if Trump knew about the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer when he sat down for dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 summit last weekend. 
   
   Meng Wanzhou was detained on the same day Trump reached a trade truce with Jinping, but news of her arrest did not break until Wednesday. 
   
   It had previously been unclear if Trump knew of Meng's arrest as he discussed a trade deal with the Chinese leader last weekend. 
   
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   National security adviser John Bolton said Thursday that he did not know if Trump knew of Meng's arrest, which threatens to reignite the trade dispute between the U.S. and China. 
   
   A White House spokesman later told The Hill that Trump did not have advance knowledge. 
   
   China has demanded Meng's release. She faces potential extradition to the U.S. for her suspected violation of U.S. trade sanctions on Iran. 
   
   Kudlow added on Sunday that Trump "had no reaction" after he heard of her arrest. 
   
   Fox's Chris Wallace pressed Kudlow, noting that reports have said the president was "livid" that Canada arrested Meng as he worked to reach a trade deal with China. 
   
   "Regarding the Huawei prosecution, let me just say that's a law enforcement action, primarily Department of Justice," Kudlow said. "It is a very important issue because the evidence suggests, at least so far ... that Huawei did break the Iranian sanctions through different financial channels." 
   
   "We will see how that plays out," he added.
target: – With prosecutors saying President Trump arranged illegal payments during the 2016 campaign, Rep. Adam Schiff adds a thought: "There's a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the Justice Department may indict him," he says on CBS' Face the Nation, per Slate. "That he may be the first president in quite some time to face the real prospect of jail time." The Democratic congressman—who's likely the next House Intelligence Committee chairman—says the next president could face a big decision: "The bigger pardon question may come down the road, as the next president has to determine whether to pardon Donald Trump." For more Sunday chatter: Meng Wanzhou: "He did not know," White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow says on Fox News Sunday about Trump's knowledge of the Huawei CFO's arrest, per the Hill. "Regarding the Huawei prosecution, let me just say that's a law enforcement action, primarily Department of Justice."