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.) is threatening to take CNN and The Daily Beast to court after the outlets published a story saying a former Rudy Giuliani Rudy GiulianiThe Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting CIA found Putin 'probably directing' campaign against Biden: report Democrats fear Russia interference could spoil bid to retake Senate MORE associate was willing to tell Congress that Nunes met with an ousted Ukrainian prosecutor.

The ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee told Maria Bartiromo Maria Sara BartiromoBiden's team says he views election against Trump as 'Park Avenue vs. Scranton' Ex-NFL player running for House as Republican blasts Democrats as 'narcissists and sociopaths' Cruz says he wouldn't accept Supreme Court nomination MORE on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" that he plans to take both news organizations to federal court “right after Thanksgiving” and that he hopes they will cooperate.

He criticized the outlets' "fake news" reports that said an attorney for indicted Giuliani associate Lev Parnas said Parnas had knowledge about a meeting between Nunes and ousted Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin last year. The representative slammed the media for using “indicted criminals” as sources.

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“It is not OK to work with someone who has been indicted on serious federal crimes to build a media narrative and dirty up a member of Congress,” Nunes said.

Bartiromo asked Nunes whether he met with Shokin, and the California representative replied that he wants “to answer all of these questions” but “can’t compete by trying to debate this out with the public media when 90 percent of the media are totally corrupt.”

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“I'm not going to sit here and try to compete against the media that I have no chance of winning this,” he said. “I will win in court, and they'll have a chance to cooperate, and they'll have to show how they work with somebody who has been indicted, which is likely conspiring to obstruct justice."

A spokesperson from The Daily Beast declined to comment on threats of litigation Sunday but said they "stand by our reporting and are happy to defend it."

CNN also declined to comment on Sunday.

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The reports about Nunes’s meeting with the Ukrainian prosecutor indicate that the ranking member may have been involved with efforts to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE.

The House launched the impeachment inquiry into the president after a whistleblower reported that Trump asked the Ukrainian president to look into Biden days after withholding military aid. Testimony from other Trump officials has revealed a wider campaign to investigate Biden.

As the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has been the GOP leader during the impeachment hearings and has defended the president’s actions.