OF COLLUSION.
DAVID: JOINING ME NOW IS
TENNESSEE CONGRESSMAN MARK
GREEN.
CONGRESSMAN, THANKS FOR COMING
IN.
YOU'RE AMONG THOSE CALLING ON
SCHIFF TO RESIGN FROM HIS
POSITION.
HE'S CHAIRMAN OF THE INTEL
COMMITTEE.
WHY SHOULD HE RESIGN?
>> THANKS, DAVID, FOR HAVING ME
ON THE SHOW.
I THINK HE SHOULD RESIGN
BECAUSE, BASICALLY, HE HAS SAID
HE SAW -- HE PHYSICALLY SAW --
EVIDENCE THAT WAS CONVINCING,
THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES HAD COMMITTED A CRIME.
AND NOW WE FIND OUT THAT THERE
WAS NEVER ANY EVIDENCE THAT
SHOWED COLLUSION OF ANY KIND.
MR. SCHIFF'S STANDARDS OF
EVIDENCE ARE VERY CLEARLY
INAPPROPRIATE, WRONG.
HE SHOULD NOT BE CHAIRING THE
HOUSE INTEL COMMITTEE.
IT MAKES NO SENSE TO HAVE
SOMEONE WHO CAN SAY THAT THEY
SAW EVIDENCE WHEN THERE WAS
NEVER ANY EVIDENCE.
I JUST THINK IT'S WRONG.
I MEAN, HE'S A CONSPIRACY
THEORIST, BASICALLY, IS WHAT HE
IS, AND HE SHOULD NOT BE LEADING
THE HOUSE INTEL COMMITTEE.
DAVID: YOU KNOW, I WENT BACK AND
LOOKED AT QUOTES FROM HIM IN
WHICH HE DID SAY SPECIFICALLY
THAT HE HAS SEEN CREDIBLE
EVIDENCE THAT THERE WAS
COLLUSION.
WAS HE JUST MAKING IT UP?
I MEAN, IS THERE SOMEWHERE, SOME
ACCESS TO SOME DOCUMENT THAT HE
MIGHT HAVE THAT MR. MUELLER
NEVER SAW?
>> I CAN'T IMAGINE.
I MEAN, IT'S VERY CLEAR WITH
THEIR THREAT TO CONTINUE
INVESTIGATIONS THAT THEIR REAL
GOAL IS TO TAKE THE PRESIDENT
DOWN.
AND I GENUINELY BELIEVE WHEN
THEY TOOK OVER IN THE HOUSE THIS
YEAR, THEY WERE TEEING UP ALL
THESE INVESTIGATIONS, EVEN IN
OVERSIGHT WITH MICHAEL COHEN
COMING IN, THE GOAL IS TO TAKE
THE PRESIDENT DOWN.
IF HE HAD EVIDENCE, THERE IS NO
WAY IN THE WORLD HE WOULD KEEP
THAT FROM BOB MUELLER.
THERE IS NO WAY.
DAVID: WELL, DESPITE YOUR CALLS
FOR HIM TO RESIGN, I THINK IT'S
MORE LIKELY HE WOULD BECOME A
REPUBLICAN THAN RESIGN, DON'T
YOU?
[LAUGHTER]
>> THAT'S A GOOD ONE.
I'M GOING TO REMEMBER THAT LINE.
IF I CAN USE THAT, I WILL --
YEAH, BUT THE CHANCES --
DAVID: YOU DON'T REALLY THINK
THERE'S ANY POSSIBILITY HE WOULD
RESIGN.
>> CLEARLY, HE'S NOT GOING TO
RESIGN, BUT, YOU KNOW, THE
SPEAKER COULD ASK HIM OR EVEN
PUT PRESSURE ON HIM, SHE COULD
ACTUALLY PULL HIM FROM HIS
SPEAKERSHIP -- OR HIS
CHAIRMANSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE.
SO SHE COULD TO THAT FOR THE
INTEGRITY OF THE COMMITTEE AND
FOR THE INTEGRITY OF THE HOUSE,
AND I THINK SHE SHOULD DO THAT.
DAVID: YOU KNOW, IT WAS ABOUT A
YEAR AGO, IT WAS IN THE APRIL
2018, WHEN THE HOUSE INTEL
COMMITTEE -- OF COURSE, THEN RUN
BY REPUBLICANS -- CAME OUT WITH
A REPORT THAT SAID PRETTY MUCH
WHAT THE MUELLER REPORT SAID,
THAT THERE WAS NO COLLUSION,
THERE WERE SOME HITS ON THE
PRESIDENT.
IT SUGGESTED THAT PERHAPS HE WAS
INDISCREET IN SOME OF THE THINGS
HE SAID, BUT IN TERMS OF
COLLUSION, THERE WAS NONE, NO
EVIDENCE.
IT PRETTY MUCH PARALLELLED WHAT
MR. MUELLER SAID EVEN THOUGH
DEMOCRATS WERE FURIOUS AT THE
HOUSE REPORT.
THEY HAVEN'T HAD THE GUTS TO
COME OUT AND SAY THEY'RE FURIOUS
WITH THE MUELLER REPORT AFTER
HAVING SUPPORTED MR. MUELLER FOR
SO LONG.
>> THAT'S RIGHT.
THEY TALKED ABOUT HOW IMPARTIAL
HE WAS GOING TO BE AND HOW GREAT
OF A PROSECUTOR, INVESTIGATOR HE
WAS GOING TO BE.
SO THEIR CREDIBILITY WILL ONLY
BE WORSENED IF THEY COME OUT AND
CRITICIZE HIM.
BUT THE SENATE, YOU KNOW, THE
SENATE CAME OUT WITH A VERSION
JUST A FEW MONTHS AGO AND
BASICALLY SAID THE SAME THING,
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF
COLLUSION HERE.
AND YET MR. SCHIFF WANTS TO KEEP
ON INVESTIGATING, WASTING THE
TIME -- YOU KNOW, AND IT'S AN
OPPORTUNITY COST.
WHENEVER A COMMITTEE LOOKS AT
ONE THING, THEY CAN'T BE LOOKING
AT SOMETHING ELSE.
AND WE HAVE SOME SERIOUS
PROBLEMS IN THE COUNTRY.
ACTIVE DUTY SUICIDES IN THE ARMY
INCREASED THIS LAST YEAR.
WHY ARE WE NOT LOOKING INTO
THAT?
BECAUSE ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS
BRING PRESIDENT TRUMP DOWN.
DAVID: YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT ONLY A
WASTE OF TIME, IT'S A WASTE OF
POLITICAL CAPITAL.
AND I'M JUST WONDERING, YOU WORK
WITH THESE PEOPLE EVERY DAY.
I'M SURE YOU'RE, YOU KNOW, OFF
CAMERA YOU'RE FRIENDLY WITH SOME
OF THEM.
DON'T YOU EVER SUGGEST, LOOK,
YOU GUYS CAN'T BE SERIOUS, THIS
IS NOT GOING TO BE A WINNING
ISSUE.
I MEAN, DO THEY REALLY PLAN ON
CARRYING IT THROUGH EVEN THOUGH
MR. MUELLER SAID THERE'S NOTHING
THERE?
>> IT SEEMS TO BE THEY WANT TO
CONTINUE THESE INVESTIGATIONS.
CLEARLY, HOUSE INTEL WANTS TO.
WHETHER OR NOT OVERSIGHT WILL
CONTINUE DOWN THIS PATH, IT, YOU
KNOW, IT JUST -- WE'LL HAVE TO
WAIT AND SEE.
BUT VERY CLEARLY, MR. SCHIFF HAD
SAID HE WANTS TO GO FORWARD WITH
MORE INVESTIGATIONS.
HE'S DOUBLING DOWN, AND IT JUST
CONTINUES TO DESTROY HIS
CREDIBILITY.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHY LEADER
McCARTHY, YOU KNOW, KICKED
THIS OFF, AND NOW THE REST OF US
ARE JOINING IN THE CHORUS, HE
NEEDS TO STEP DOWN.
DAVID: WELL, IT MAY ALSO BE
DESTROYING THEIR CHANCES FOR A
WIN IN 2020, SO, YOU KNOW, I
ASSUME THEY THINK THEY KNOW WHAT