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- Former President Trump and Jared Kushner both praised Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his TV appearances.
- "You know, you do a good job," Trump told Schiff in the Oval Office in March 2017.
- That's according to Schiff's new memoir, "Midnight in Washington."
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Both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner praised Democratic Rep. Adam of Schiff of California for his television appearances in the early months of the Trump administration, according to the congressman's new book.
CNN reported the exchange between Schiff and the Trump family on Wednesday based on excerpts from Schiff's forthcoming memoir, "Midnight in Washington," which is set to be published next week.
"You know, you do a good job," Trump told the Democratic congressman in the Oval Office in March 2017. Schiff wrote that he had been invited to the White House that month to view "alleged intelligence about spying on Trump's campaign."
"You know, you do a really good job on TV," Kushner told Schiff several months later as he testified before the House Intelligence committee in July 2017, per the book. Schiff said this exchange clarified what Trump had meant back in March.
"I don't think your father-in-law would agree," Schiff says he responded to Kushner.
"Oh, yes, he does, and that's why," Kushner replied.
Schiff, who was then the ranking member of the intelligence committee, later went on to chair the committee following Democrats' 2018 midterm victory, setting up the House Democratic investigation of Trump's ties to Russia and eventual impeachment probe over Trump's phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Schiff is a frequent fixture on TV as one of the party's leading national security voices, earning the congressman both the adoration of Democrats and the ire of Republicans.
The book also includes Schiff's thoughts on the state of American democracy and his reactions to some of the most high-profile events of the Trump years, events in which Schiff himself played a significant role.