foreboding about our country. mike schmidt is back with us, new york times book is out in paper book and it s also out today. thank you both for being here. good to be with you. take me through this book. well, you began it begins with the transition. the most fraught and most dangerous transition since the civil war and the bloodiest as it turned out. it was absolutely extraordinary. i talked to bob bauer, who was the legal counsel for the transition. he s the one who described 70 different eventualities they were preparing for, including they stopped at 70 because that was all they could really deal with. but the most dangerous of which would have been a military coup. but while all that was going on, nicolle, the really
administration ended, but when president biden was elected, he very quickly asked me, and i accepted with, you know, with a great deal of honor to do that, to be his chief medical adviser, i thought that was going to last one year, because like so many other people, i thought that the covid outbreak would be over at the end of the first year of the biden administration, but obviously, it s not, so having said that, since things look like they re starting to stabilize a bit, and i believe in the next few months, we will do better than we re doing now, i felt again, i might as well do it now because i want to make sure that when i do leave, i still have the energy and the passion and the health to do the kind of things that i want to do. so all things considered, rachel, i thought it was the right time. there are very few people who served in government, who, when you hear they re going to write a book, you think oh, good i ll probably learn something from
joining us now live is the chairman of the intelligence committee and the house of representatives, california congressman adam schiff also the author of the number one new york times best-selling book midnight in washington, how we almost lost our democracy and still could, it has just come out in paper book. congratulations on that. mr. chairman, thank you for joining us tonight. great to be with you. let me first just get your reaction to this breaking news from the new york times tonight. quantifying for the first time the amount of classified information that was in question about the former president s estate in florida, the times is reporting that the fbi has now obtained more than 300 different classified documents from trump s home that reportedly include documents from the cia, the nsa, and the
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