Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) blasted House Republicans on Friday, suggesting that they weren’t serious about investigating potential ties between President Trump and Russia.

Speaking to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Waters offered praise for Sens. John McCain John Sidney McCainCOVID response shows a way forward on private gun sale checks Trump pulls into must-win Arizona trailing in polls Nonprofit 9/11 Day bashes Trump for airing political ads on Sept. 11 anniversary MORE (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamGOP senators say coronavirus deal dead until after election Tucker Carlson accuses Lindsey Graham of convincing Trump to talk to Woodward Trump courts Florida voters with moratorium on offshore drilling MORE (R-S.C.), who have pushed for strong probes into Russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and have been critical of Trump’s warm words toward Russian President Vladimir Putin.

And she said she had more faith in the Senate Intelligence Committee to probe Russia's election meddling than its House counterpart. The committees in both chambers are conducting investigations into Russia's actions and any potential connections with the Trump campaign.

“I trust that the Intelligence Committee of the Senate is more serious about looking at this,” Waters said. “And I want to tell you, I really do trust John McCain and Lindsey [Graham] to help make sure that something serious is done to get to the bottom of this on the Senate side.”

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“Basically, I don’t trust the Republicans on the House side,” Waters added.

Waters has long been a vocal critic of Trump. She became the only Democratic lawmaker to announce that she would not attend the president’s address to Congress on Tuesday out of political disagreement.

Questions about Trump and his associates’ ties to the Kremlin have shaken his young administration. The president’s first National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned last month amid revelations that he spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak about U.S. sanctions in the month before Trump took office and misled Vice President Pence and other officials about the conversation.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions Jefferson (Jeff) Beauregard SessionsTrump's policies on refugees are as simple as ABCs Ocasio-Cortez, Velázquez call for convention to decide Puerto Rico status White House officials voted by show of hands on 2018 family separations: report MORE also came under fire Wednesday night after it was revealed that he failed to disclose two meetings with Kislyak during a Jan. 10 confirmation hearing. He recused himself on Thursday from federal investigations into Russian election meddling or Trump’s potential ties to Moscow.

Several other Trump aides have met with Kislyak, as well. And press reports last month alleged that some of the real estate mogul’s aides constantly communicated with Russian officials during his presidential campaign.

McCain and Graham have called for an independent, special committee to investigate the Russia allegations – a proposal largely dismissed by leading Republican lawmakers, who have insisted that existing congressional committees are capable of carrying out the probe.