House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy Kevin Owen McCarthyMcCarthy's Democratic challenger to launch first TV ad highlighting Air Force service as single mother Trump asked Chamber of Commerce to reconsider Democratic endorsements: report The Hill's Morning Report - Sponsored by The Air Line Pilots Association - White House moves closer to Pelosi on virus relief bill MORE (R-Calif.) on Sunday dismissed the Democratic House Judiciary Committee chairman's plans to investigate whether President Trump Donald John TrumpOmar fires back at Trump over rally remarks: 'This is my country' Pelosi: Trump hurrying to fill SCOTUS seat so he can repeal ObamaCare Trump mocks Biden appearance, mask use ahead of first debate MORE merits impeachment, saying "there's nothing that the president did wrong."

"Show me where the president did anything to be impeached," McCarthy said on ABC's "This Week."

"I think Congressman Nadler decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election," he added.

NEW: House Minority leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy responds to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Rep. Jerry Nader on @ThisWeekABC: "I think congressman Nadler decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election." https://t.co/YaWpzth66u pic.twitter.com/RdKHFS8MzN — ABC News (@ABC) March 3, 2019

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Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said earlier on the Sunday show that "it's very clear that the president obstructed justice." He added that before Democrats could seek impeachment proceedings against the president, they need to "persuade the American public that it ought to happen."

"We do not now have the evidence all sorted out to do the impeachment," he told ABC.

He said his committee is starting its own investigation on Monday in order to find and lay out the necessary evidence to the American public, but denied that it is specifically an "impeachment investigation."

"Listen to what Nadler said. Nadler's setting the framework now for the Democrats not to believe [special counsel Robert Mueller Robert (Bob) MuellerCNN's Toobin warns McCabe is in 'perilous condition' with emboldened Trump CNN anchor rips Trump over Stone while evoking Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting The Hill's 12:30 Report: New Hampshire fallout MORE's] report. They're now saying we have to do our own investigation," McCarthy responded. "After you had hundreds of interviews, millions of dollars spent in the Senate and House and they find no collusion."

Running alongside Mueller's probe, the Senate and House Intelligence committees have their own investigations into Russia's election interference. The House concluded their investigation with no evidence of collusion last year, although Intelligence Committee Democrats disputed the result. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr Richard Mauze BurrRep. Mark Walker says he's been contacted about Liberty University vacancy Overnight Defense: Trump rejects major cut to military health care | Senate report says Trump campaign's Russia contacts posed 'grave' threat Senate report describes closer ties between 2016 Trump campaign, Russia MORE (R-N.C.) said earlier this year that, two years into their probe, they have seen no evidence of collusion. The ranking Democratic member of the panel also disputed that summary.

Nadler in saying his committee would launch an investigation added that "we can't depend on the Mueller investigation for this ... [because] No. 1, we don't know when it's ending. Despite lots of rumors. No. 2, it's focused on specific crimes, and we have to focus much more broadly on abuses of power."

"And the Justice Department has made clear in the last few weeks that it may hide from the American people the conclusions of the Mueller investigation," he added.

He noted that specific crimes and impeachable offenses are two different things.

"Impeachment is a long way down the road, we don't have the facts yet, but we're going to initiate proper investigations," he said.

Democratic leadership has been hesitant to pursue impeachment proceedings against Trump and have urged their party to focus on the business of governing rather than going after the president.

— Updated 10:30 a.m.