Cruz is back to attack the whistleblower and makes a claim again that the whistleblower worked for Biden, and suggests the whistleblower was involved in Ukraine with Biden. Pushes this at the House team.
In case you didn’t know, Ted Cruz is in the running for America’s most odious ass.
Schiff is prepared for this question, pulls up a slide quoting Republican senators on the protection that whistleblowers deserve. Schiff makes it clear he doesn’t know the whistleblower, hasn’t met the whistleblower, and that his staff did not help with, coach, or see the complaint before it came from the inspector general. “The conspiracy theory … is a total fiction.”
Schiff complains about the smears against his staff which “acted at all times with utmost integrity.” Schiff kills this answer.
But of course Cruz isn’t expecting an answer. He’s just throwing out claims made right-wing media to get those claims on the record and give vile calumny a false patina of respectability.