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The president’s latest tweets criticizing the Russia investigation came after Friday’s firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, leading to speculation that the president may act to remove the special counsel.

Asked whether McCabe’s firing was justified, Schiff said, \"You know, his firing may be justified. There's no way for us to know at this point, but even though it may have been justified, it can also be tainted.\"

Stephanopoulos asked Schiff about the president's tweets and a statement by Trump attorney John Dowd to The Daily Beast on Saturday suggesting that the Justice Department official who appointed Mueller end the probe.

“I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation,\" Dowd said, calling the probe \"manufactured.\"

Schiff said, \"I think, George, you just pointed to the single most important development of the week and that is at the same time it's revealed that the special counsel is looking at business records of the Trump Organization,\" referring to a New York Times report Thursday that Mueller’s team has subpoenaed Russia-related records from president's business, the Trump Organization. ABC News has confirmed this report with multiple sources familiar with the matter but has not seen the subpoenas.

\"I've always thought the money laundering issue was the most serious,\" Schiff said. \"You have the president through his lawyer trying to shut down the Mueller investigation and speaking out against special counsel.\"

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Stephanopoulos also asked about this week's announcement by the Republican majority on the House Intelligence Committee that they are ending their probe of Russia's meddling in the 2016 election after concluding there was no collusion by the Trump campaign.

\"I know you dispute that,\" Stephanopoulos said to Schiff. \"But will a report by the Democrats [on the committee] be able to demonstrate that collusion did, in fact, take place?\"

\"Well, it certainly would be able to show the facts supporting the issue of collusion and the secret meetings, all the lies about the secret meetings, and putting them in their important context, the timing of these secret meetings,\" the California representative said. \"But there's still a lot of investigative work to find the remaining pieces of the puzzle and the most significant part of the Republicans shutting us down is they're preventing us from doing so.\"

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