Fox News dropped Gowdy on Wednesday as a contributor after reports surfaced that he was likely to join Trump’s growing impeachment team , which includes Sekulow; former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; Marc Mukasey, a Trump Organization lawyer and son of former Attorney General Michael Mukasey; and Trump lawyer William Consovoy.

In a recent appearance on Fox, Gowdy dismissed Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden’s family’s activities in Ukraine.

“Does any of that matter?” Gowdy told Fox News’ Dana Perino. “I mean, what is the theory under which it’s an impeachable offense? If the president asked Mayor Giuliani to do it, is that the impeachable offense?”

The former federal prosecutor went on to dismiss the transcript of Trump’s phone call with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine that was released by the White House, saying, “If there’s a smoking gun there, I can’t even find the gun, whether it’s smoking or not.”

The announcement of Gowdy’s hiring comes after the White House said it wouldn’t cooperate with House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the three committee chairmen leading the probe, White House counsel Pat Cipollone declared that the Trump administration would refuse to engage with a process it considers to be “constitutionally invalid” and “lacks any pretense of fairness.”

In 2016, Gowdy slammed the Obama White House for not handing over documents related to the multi-year investigation into the Benghazi attack.

“There continues to be time wasted negotiating with executive branch entities who do not want to give us what I believe Congress is entitled to,” Gowdy said about the Obama administration in 2016.

Gowdy concluded his investigation with an 800-page report that found no wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state at the time of the 2012 attack, which killed U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. The report, which Clinton’s 2016 campaign dismissed as “discredited” conspiracy theories, also said that the CIA missed the looming threat despite warnings and that it wrote faulty intelligence reports after the attack.