improper actions by the justice department, not only why did they continue after the change in administration, but even if they hadn't continued after the change in administration, what's the recourse within the justice department to find out the extent of this, to punish the people who did it, or at least to investigate them to figure out what exactly they did and to deter this from happening again. that's becoming a larger and larger question every day in the merrick garland era of the justice department the more we learn about what's been happening. "new york times" reporter michael schmidt. i know this is a breaking story just posted. thanks for helping us understand it. >> thanks for having me. >> all right. i want to bring into the conversation now one of the subjects of this story, one of apparently two, we believe, democrats on the house intelligence committee who had his records seized. now chairman of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff.