On Thursday morning,
Mr Schiff has come under fire for continuing to launch investigations into the president and the Trump campaign to determine whether there was any possible collusion with the Kremlin and if Mr Mueller had any limitations during his investigation.
Donald Trump called on Rep. Adam Schiff to resign from his position as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee on Twitter, alleging the California Democrat “knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking” information regarding special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Since Mr Muller did not find the Trump campaign had colluded with Russia, according to a letter sent to Congress by Attorney General William Barr, many Republicans believe the California Democrat’s continue investigation of the president to be an act of “congressional overreach” and an abuse of power to “knowingly promote false information.”
In addition to the president, nine other Republicans sitting on the House Intelligence Committee signed a letter calling on
The letter read: “Your willingness to continue to promote a demonstrably false narrative is alarming. The findings of the Special Counsel conclusively refute your past and present assertions and have exposed you as having abused your position to knowingly promote false information, having damaged the integrity of this Committee, and undermined faith in U.S. government institutions.”
Rep. Mike Conaway, the Republican leading the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation, echoed calls for Mr Schiff’s resignation at the beginning of the public committee hearing on money laundering.