House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff should resign and be censured over his role in the Russia investigation, but he won't be punished, Rep. Lee Zeldin said Monday.
"His gavel should be removed," the New York Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "He should be censured. He should resign. There’s a lot that should happen, but Nancy Pelosi isn’t going to punish Adam Schiff. In fact, that’s the reason why he has the gavel in the first place."
In recent weeks, critics in the Republican Party have claimed Schiff was blocking the release of testimony given by 53 witnesses before his committee, and when the transcripts were released, they revealed damaging testimony, including from former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and ex-CIA Director John Brennan, who said they saw no empirical evidence of collusion with Russia.
"He’s the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, which became the House Impeachment Committee because of the way he writes these fairy-tale parodies," Zeldin said Monday.
He also said the media rewarded Schiff and other Democrats behind President Donald Trump's impeachment.
“We want answers as to who knew what, but we also want to see there be accountability for this, for … the FISA warrants, and for what happened with Michael Flynn," said Zeldin. "And I remember two years ago, I was on Erin Burnett’s show on CNN, and she was giving me a hard time claiming that (former FBI agent) Peter Strzok had nothing to do at all with the Russia investigation and the Michael Flynn investigation. I mean, she was trying to lecture me on it. This is a time for us to be correcting the record, not just with Fox doing your job as you do, and you have done this entire time, but especially these other networks that made money off of this dumbing down their audience.”
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