Rep. Adam Schiff Adam Bennett SchiffSchiff claims DHS is blocking whistleblower's access to records before testimony GOP lawmakers distance themselves from Trump comments on transfer of power Rubio on peaceful transfer of power: 'We will have a legitimate & fair election' MORE (D-Calif.) said Wednesday that he often feels like “the spouse in a bad marriage" with President Trump because he continues to think Trump will change his behavior.

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Schiff said in a live interview with the Washington Post that he keeps thinking Trump will act differently but that the president has proved that isn’t the case.

“I feel like the proverbial spouse in a bad marriage who keeps thinking his spouse is going to change,” Schiff said. “Even now, against all reason I keep thinking, maybe he's going to change.”

“This isn't an act, this is who he is and he's not going to change,” Schiff said. “Whatever attribute of character that makes him behave the way he does is not going to stop."

Schiff, the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and said last month that he didn’t know if Americans could believe the president.