Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., condemned the Democratic National Committee's new lawsuit against the Trump campaign, Russia, and WikiLeaks as being a scheme to fill their coffers.

"This is nothing more than a scam to keep their base fired up," Nunes, who is chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said during an interview Saturday with Fox News' Judge Jeanine Pirro.

Referring to the DNC's fundraising shortcomings that have stretched into 2018, Nunes said the lawsuit is a "fundraising scheme."

"This is about the extreme left, the socialist left, wanting to never accept that the president of the United States was rightfully and duly elected, carried a number of states that nobody expected him to carry," the congressman said. "So this is a fundraising scheme. It's nothing more, nothing less. It's a fundraising scheme because the Democrats are out of money, and that's what this is about."

The lawsuit Nunes was asked to comment on alleges a conspiracy between the trio to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign in order to get Donald Trump elected. The DNC's complaint was filed Friday in a federal district court in Manhattan, N.Y.

Nunes started out his answer quipping, "Well, they ought to be suing themselves."

"They are the ones that colluded with the Russians. So they're the ones that have an FEC violation, they didn't report that they were paying Fusion GPS, right? That they were digging up dirt on the trump campaign. None of that was reported, so they ought to be suing themselves. This is nothing more than a scam to keep their base fired up."



@DevinNunes joined me tonight to discuss the fallout over the Comey memos. Take a look: pic.twitter.com/JE6ym9EEfU — Jeanine Pirro (@JudgeJeanine) April 22, 2018



Nunes was referring to a Federal Election Commission complaint filed by the Campaign Legal Center last October, which said the DNC and Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign committee violated campaign finance laws after they failed to disclose payments linked to the so-called "Trump dossier."

Trump has said the DNC lawsuit is "good news" and his 2020 campaign has listed out a plan to draw out emails and evidence of "corruption" and "collusion" during the legal process.