Welcome to Words Matter with Katie Barlow and Joe Lockhart.

Welcome to Words Matter, I'm Katie Barlow.

Our goal is to promote objective reality.

As a wise man once said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, not their own facts.

To have power and words have consequences.

Our guest today is Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Congressman Adam Schiff is in his 10th term representing California's 28th Congressional

District.

Before that, he was a member of the California State Senate where he served as Chairman

of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Congressman Schiff began his career as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Central District

of California.

Chairman Schiff, welcome to Words Matter.

So Mr. Chairman, you have served nearly two decades in Congress, but before that you were

a California State Senator and a federal prosecutor, which is a very high profile public life.

But in the last year, really in the last couple of months, your name has become a household

name, not just as a political figure, but as a cultural one.

So can you talk a little bit about what that's been like for you and your family on a daily

basis and how that's changed for you?

Certainly, I find that I'm a human focus group now wherever I go.

And particularly airports, people are more than willing to give you their thoughts in a

very unfiltered way at airports because they expect they will never see you again.

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