Jennifer Rubin, a Washington Post columnist, said taped audio of Rep. Devin Nunes Devin Gerald NunesOvernight Defense: Stopgap spending measure awaits Senate vote | Trump nominates former Nunes aide for intelligence community watchdog | Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to contractors, military Trump nominates former Nunes aide to serve as intel community inspector general Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election MORE (R-Calif.) suggesting that a Republican majority is needed to protect President Trump Donald John TrumpSteele Dossier sub-source was subject of FBI counterintelligence probe Pelosi slams Trump executive order on pre-existing conditions: It 'isn't worth the paper it's signed on' Trump 'no longer angry' at Romney because of Supreme Court stance MORE is proof that the GOP should be defeated.

Rubin slammed Nunes and Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) during an appearance on MSNBC late Wednesday, calling them "irredeemable."

“If there is ever a better reason to get rid of Paul Ryan’s party, it's this,” Rubin said of the Nunes audio tape. “They exercise no responsibility, it’s always about the party, it’s always about protecting the president and never about doing their constitutional obligation.”

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“So my takeaway from this [is] ... these people really are irredeemable, and if you want a constitutional check on the president of the United States, you’re doing to have to change parties,” she added.

Rubin said the secret tape, released on Wednesday, is just another political embarrassment for Ryan, adding that the Speaker has left “unserious” and “irresponsible” Nunes as head of the House Intelligence Committee.

Nunes, speaking at a private fundraiser for Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers Cathy McMorris RodgersHillicon Valley: Trump backs potential Microsoft, TikTok deal, sets September deadline | House Republicans request classified TikTok briefing | Facebook labels manipulated Pelosi video Top House Republicans request classified TikTok briefing More than 100 lawmakers urge IRS to resolve stimulus payment issues MORE (R-Wash.) last week, said that “if [Attorney General Jeff] Sessions won’t unrecuse and [special counsel Robert] Mueller won’t clear the president, we’re the only ones.”

Nunes, a top ally of the president, recused himself from his committee’s investigation into Russian election interference last year after he made a private trip to the White House to see documents he described as showing that members of Trump's White House transition team had their identities unmasked in intelligence reports.

“And now we have Kathy McMorris Rodgers, who is the No. 4 person — doing very badly, by the way, in her primary — sitting there like a lump in the log as this person waxing about how his primary job is to protect the president and not to do his job,” Rubin said on MSNBC.

“These people look like stooges,” Rubin added.

Rubin frequently criticizes the GOP and Trump in her “Right Turn” blog for the Post, previously calling Trump an "arrogant fool" and a "flat-out racist."

Last week, she declared in an editorial that the GOP “isn’t fit to govern.”

She also said that White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders should be “shunned” from her next job for her false and misleading claims.