In this episode of the CBS News podcast INTELLIGENCE MATTERS and in partnership with the Hayden Center, podcast host Michael Morell spoke with Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Adam Schiff about the politicization of intelligence and the need to “reset” the committee. Schiff detailed his support of an airline crash-style review to investigate the Solar Winds hack and urged the intelligence community to address the challenge posed by the rise of China. Find the full episode transcript and listen online here.

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Excerpts from the latest episode:

• Rep. Schiff on “trying to reset” the House intel committee: “I would like to get back to some level of comity, I realize it’s going to take time. Within the Democratic caucus, there is continuing anger, among other emotions, over the fact that even after the failed insurrection, so many of our Republican colleagues were back on the House floor trying to overturn the results of the election and propagating the same falsehoods that led to that attack on the Capitol. Most of the Republicans on the Intelligence Committee are among that group, but nonetheless, the work of the committee has to get done. I’ve been talking to Republican members about trying to reset. This is an untold story of the House Intel Committee. Even over the last four years where it was so acrimonious on our committee. We nonetheless got the intelligence authorization acts done every year.”

• Support for Sen. Warner’s airline crash-style review of SolarWinds hack: “We’ve been aware of the problem. It’s not like it’s a surprise, but we haven’t obviously done what needed to be done to guard against it. . . Senator Warner has proposed something like an entity and review after a plane crash to determine what went wrong. I like that concept very much. There is an independent analysis and corrective action taken. We’re also going to have to decide what part of the supply chain do we need to bring in house. We need to look at the whole other aspect of supply chain problems in supplies that we obtain from overseas.”

• Russia is a declining power while China is on the rise: “The danger from Russia, a declining power, is the danger that you face from a wounded animal that is dangerous because it’s wounded and desperate. Russia very much sees the world in a zero-sum game with the United States. But China is on the rise and is already formidable.”

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