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Adam Schiff said that he did not regret embellishing a transcript of the call between President Trump and Ukrainian leaders during the early days of the impeachment investigation.

Schiff, 49, previously admitted to making up a dramatized version of the call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump that he claimed was “meant to be at least part in parody.” Trump and his attorneys have ripped Schiff for spinning the transcript and for his handling of impeachment in general. The president’s legal team spent a significant portion of its two-hour defense on Saturday picking apart Schiff’s credibility.

During an interview on Meet the Press, host Chuck Todd asked Schiff if he had “any regrets” about dramatizing Trump’s phone call or for claiming that Trump colluded with the Russians in 2016, despite the Mueller report not finding evidence of criminal conspiracy.

The California Democrat said he did not have regrets about either and pivoted to focus on the findings of the Mueller report. He replied: “I’m glad you asked the question about collusion because, again, [Trump’s attorneys] may be perpetuating the president’s talking points, but they’ve got it exactly wrong. Bob Mueller did not find that there was no collusion. In fact, in the first couple pages of the report, he said we don’t address that issue.”

As Schiff noted, Mueller did not investigate collusion. Mueller’s team instead looked for criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia and found no evidence that would warrant a conviction.

Schiff added: “The relevance of the Mueller report to all this, because we’re not trying the Mueller report, is that this isn’t the first time that [Trump] invited foreign interference. That is the background of the current effort to get a foreign nation to help him cheat in an election.”

The congressman claimed that impeachment managers provided “overwhelming evidence” that Trump tried to force Ukraine to “help him cheat” by withholding military aid and a White House meeting for information on Joe Biden, but Trump’s defense team argued that couldn’t be true because Ukraine did not know the aid was ever delayed.