Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) told CNN's John Berman on Friday that he believes Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has nothing to apologize for when it comes to accusing President Donald Trump of colluding with Russia.
Himes said that even though Attorney General Bob Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report could not establish that Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Russia, it didn't absolve the president or his campaign from engaging in sleazy behavior that harmed American democracy.
"Maybe the president's actions didn't rise to the level of a criminal conspiracy... but it was a long list of inappropriate, unpatriotic activity that was evidence -- real evidence -- of something possibly going wrong," he said. "I'm willing to conceded today that it wasn't a criminal conspiracy, but remember, none of these activities were appropriate."
On Thursday, Schiff went on a long rant against the president and his campaign during a House Intelligence Committee meeting, in which he said he was "not OK" with Trump campaign officials meeting with alleged Russian agents and encouraging them to leak damaging material that they had stolen from Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
Himes said he believed those facts alone constituted a scandal, and that Mueller's full report would demonstrate just how badly the Trump campaign had behaved.
"When the evidence comes out, it will not look good for the president," he predicted.
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