CNN anchor Jake Tapper grilled California Democrat Senator-elect Adam Schiff on his responsibility in producing President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda.

The anchor questioned the senator-elect about his Russian collusion hoax and subsequent Mueller investigation and wondered if it was, in part, responsible for the Cabinet picks that the president-elect has made.

“I’m looking at these nominees, Tulsi Gabbard to be director of national intelligence, possibly Kash Patel to be head of the FBI, Gaetz at DOJ, RFK Jr. at HHS, and others,” Tapper said.

“And, obviously, he is bringing a group of people to disrupt. I mean, that is what Speaker Johnson said. And I’m wondering about how much anybody in Washington is being introspective at all about why there is this kind of opening for disrupters, if not necessarily these individuals. You were censured in the House last year for, in their view, holding positions of power during the Trump presidency as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, and, according to them — quote – ‘abusing this trust’ by saying there was evidence of collusion between Trump’s campaign and Russia,” he continued.

“And I wonder if you are feeling at all introspective at all about — that was, according to your — according to the Mueller report and according to your Republican colleagues, an overstatement. And I wonder if you think in any way you helped set the table for these disrupters?” asked the CNN host.

But the senator-elect was as defiant as ever, continuing to falsely claim that there was collusion between the president-elect and Russia.

“You know, first of all, it wasn’t an overstatement. There is evidence of collusion. The Trump campaign manager was meeting with Russian intelligence and giving them internal polling data, just to give you one example. And the Mueller report sets all this out,” he said.

The CNN anchor attempted to set him straight again.

“It does say — quote – ‘The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities,’ which doesn’t mean that he didn’t — that there weren’t meetings, but they didn’t find evidence of it,” he said.

But the senator-elect simply would not let go of his hoax.

“Mueller says that too. He says the fact that we didn’t find proof beyond a reasonable doubt doesn’t mean there wasn’t evidence of conspiracy or coordination,” Schiff said.