like dan coates who did their duty, wouldn't carry out the president's big lies.need to be inspired by those examples. because we all have a role to play and the preservation of this democracy. >> brennan: before i let you go, i need to ask you about the january 6 committee. when will you get hold of the documents at the white house that said they're okay with congress taking the trump era documents? >> very soon, i hope. >> brennan: what are you looking for? >> i applaud the biden administration for not asserting executive privilege, not trying to -- because it is protecting its own prerogative to deprive the american people of the full information. hats off to the administration. we should, i think, getn cause the sitting president has the executive privilege. we also want to make sure that these witnesses come in and testify. and we are prepared to go forward and urge the justice department to criminally prosecute anyone who does not do their lawful duty. >> brennan: we will watch that carefully. congressman, thank you for your time today. we'll be back in a mi

it revealed dan coats and mitt romney and all kinds of people of conviction, who rose to the occasion, and, you know, looking at those stories ought to give us inspiration. all of us right now have a role to play in the saving of our democracy. we can't all be marie yavonovich who defied a president and came and told the truth. we can't all be in her position, but we can in our own way play a role in saving our democracy when it is at maximum risk. >> chairman adam schiff "midnight in washington" available now. thank you for joining us this morning. appreciate it. >>> lieutenant governor of a state calling homosexuality filth, comments caught on camera. >>> a mom suing a school after her son got covid from a classmate. and the new revelations expected just hours from now in the gabby petito case. when did you see the signs? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics. yeah, and now business is rolling in. get started at fastsigns.com. we are the next. the next generation of visionari

people like dan coats, who did his job and got fired because of it.na hill and alexander vindman and marie yovanovitch, if this wonderful former ambassador to ukraine had not defied the president and been willing to testify, we may never have learned the full facts of his corrupt conduct, trump's corrupt conduct vis-a-vis ukraine, and it's these heroes we should draw inspiration from. and it's also folks like this, like mitt romney, who stood up against his party when they were wrong, that validate to me the founders' belief that we have sufficient virtue as human beings to govern ourselves. >> thank you, congressman, for writing this book. very important book, indeed. i understand number one on amazon already. >> somehow. which i can't understand, but i'm very grateful. >> thank you so much for joining us. the title of the book "midnight in washington, how we almost lost our democracy and still could." congressman adam schiff. >> coming up, a stalled agenda, the crisis in afghanistan, the ongoing pandemic, and now supply shortages and rising prices.

>> dan coats: we clearly need to be more agile.telligence community needs to be restructured to address. >> whitaker: since then, technology has continued moving at an exponential pace, while u.s. policy has not. efforts by the government and big tech to detect synthetic media are competing with a community of "deepfake artists" who share their latest creations and techniques online. like the internet, the first place deepfake technology took off was in pornography. the sad fact is the majority of deepfakes today consist of women's faces, mostly ceit superd ontoideos. >>ick: t first use case in pornography is just a harbinger of how deepfakes can be used maliciously in many different contexts, which are now starting to arise. >> whitaker: and they're getting better all the time? >> schick: yes. the incredible thing about deepfakes and synthetic media is the pace of acceleration when it comes to the technology. and by five to seven years, we are basically looking at a trajectory where any single creator, so, a youtuber, a tiktoker,

the marie yovanovitches, the dan coats and others who did their job, who showed the way, who in spired a great many people. and it's those illustrations and examples that we should follow to find our own courage these days. we're a resilient country. i fully believe that we'll get through this. and one of the reasons i titled the book, midnight in washington, midnight might be the darkest moment of every day in the world, but what comes after is filled with a prospect of light. and i fully believe that we're going to get through this. >> chairman schiff, are we going to get through this if democrats lose majority in the house and kevin mccarthy becomes speaker of house. you wrote a vignette about an interaction you had with kevin mccarthy, a fellow californian, who you don't really know, you're from opposite ends of the state. i'll put a quote on the screen, but you talk about a conversation that you had whifl traveling and you were talking about the politics of the hill. and he goes to the press and says that you said to him, you agreed with his assessment that republicans were going

republicans like dan coates who upheld his oath of office.ope for people. people at wit's end get engaged and get involved because there's nothing more debilitating thinking that you can't control your future and we all can. >> congressman, thank you. "midnight in washington" is out tomorrow. >>> we'll be right back. area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. jobina: this is sue wi is sue w at traffic. sue: it's monday and they just turned off the metering lights of the bay bridge about 10 minutes ago. as you can see, it is very light this morning. earlier, not so much. not so light here at the richmond san rafael bridge. this took forever clear. traffic is beginning to improve slowly. jobina: lisa denver. >> it's at 9:00 on abc 7. lisa: we are looking at winds over 25 miles per hour. it's about 48 miles per hour in monte below. it's going to be cool with a red flag warning. have critical fire danger with highs near 70 in oakland. jobina: we will have another update in about 30 minutes. you can find us on our app and on abc7

the new stalls have appeared with people selling booths, a rain coats mats for people that they know once they move on from here. will dan have to cross it at the very end jungle, which is one of the most impenetrable jungles anywhere in the world to be able to reach panama? there are no roads connecting columbia and the panama. and also, as i was telling you how many are sheltering at these migrants and their homes, this used to be a serious down. there are no tourist at this moment. but there are all these migrants that are paying around $10.00 a day per person to stay in a decent apartment, very crammed with $610.00 people in one room. and we also understand, we spoke to the mayor here, and they could clear that told us that more than a 100 families, local families that were renting here have been kicked out from their apartments to make space for the migrants. because landlords here pro fair add to a host, the migrants who are paying in dollars. so it's a critical situation. some people are winning economically, as is always the case. when these crisis happened, the ones who are losing are the migrants who are spendi