"I’m increasingly worried Republicans will shut down the House intelligence committee investigation at the end of the month," Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Ca), member of the House Intelligence Committee, said.
He added that Republicans may also be seeking to thwart the investigation into the alleged ties between US President Donald Trump and Russia led by special counsel Robert Mueller, pointing at “the attacks on [Robert] Mueller, the DoJ [the Department of Justice] and FBI this week”, the Guardian reports.
"By shutting down the congressional investigations when they continue to discover new and important evidence, the White House can exert tremendous pressure to end or curtail [Robert] Mueller’s investigation or cast doubt on it. We cannot let that happen," Schiff said
The two officers in question demeaned US President Donald Trump in their exchange, calling him an "idiot" as well as expressing their support for Democrat Hillary Clinton, apparently exhibiting a strong anti-Trump bias that may have compromised the integrity of the Special Counsel's probe.