Rep. Adam Schiff:

Certainly. And even what you see in the public domain disputes that claim.

If you look at what we know from the work of Bob Mueller in the Papadopoulos plea, the Russians, through intermediaries — and, yes, it may sound like a spy novel because there is someone called "The Professor" involved — but they approached the Trump campaign in the early stages, in April of 2016, and said that they had stolen Clinton or DNC e-mails.

And they previewed the dissemination of those e-mails. Only weeks later, the Russians made a second approach to the Trump campaign at Trump Tower at the top level of the campaign, the president's son and son-in-law and campaign manager, and said they were prepared to provide derogatory information about Hillary Clinton as part of their effort to help Donald Trump.

These are things that cannot be ignored or willed away or easily explained away. And then you add to that, of course, the president and the president's son and their false statement about the meeting taking place in the first place, about the meeting being about adoptions, when it wasn't.

And there's no disregarding the actions of Mike Flynn, who secretly had conversations with the Russian ambassador to collude and conspire to undermine the bipartisan policy of the United States. And he ended up pleading guilty to a felony about lying about that.

You can't look at those facts and say they're meaningless or they don't amount to collusion. Whether they amount to a violation of the conspiracy statute involving federal election law, Bob Mueller will decide.

But we need to report to the American people what happened. The reason we use the word collusion is, collusion is unpatriotic and immoral. Whether it rises to the level of a crime is a different issue. But, nonetheless, to say that we found no evidence of this is simply at odds with the truth.