This is fresh air, I'm Terry Gross. My guest, Congressman Adam Schiff, has been very busy the

past few years investigating Donald Trump. Schiff is the chair of the House Intelligence Committee.

Schiff was the lead manager of the first impeachment and Senate impeachment trial of then-President

Trump. That was the impeachment focusing around the call with President Zelensky,

in which Trump asked for a favor in return for weapons to fight Russia's military occupation

of part of Ukraine. Now Schiff is serving on the House Select Committee investigating January

6th, and Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. After FBI agents with a search

warrant seized confidential and top secret documents from Mar-a-Lago last week, Schiff asked the

intelligence community for a damage assessment and a briefing for Congress. Schiff has served as a

Democratic Congressman from California since 2001. He served on the Judiciary Committee from 2001 to

2011. His memoir has just been published in paperback with a new afterward. The book is titled

Midnight in Washington, How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could. We recorded our interview

yesterday morning. Congressman Schiff welcomed two fresh air. In the afterward which you wrote in

May, you questioned whether the Justice Department is acting with sufficient determination and vigor

to investigate Trump's efforts to subvert our democracy. Has the search warrant that last week

enabled the FBI to remove top secret classified documents stored in Mar-a-Lago, affected your thoughts

on Garland and the DOJ's work moving forward? Well, it has affected it. I am more encouraged that

the Justice Department is willing to do what it said it would do, which is fall the evidence where it

leads. They certainly appear to be doing that in the case of classified materials, some with the

highest classification markings that were found at Mar-a-Lago. I still am concerned a year and a half

after the events of January 6, though, that certain elements of the plot to overturn the election

do not appear to be under investigation as they pertain to the former president and sort of exhibit A

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