Kerik Accuses Schiff, Whistleblower of Coordinating Case on Trump

Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik Monday accused House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of coordinating efforts with the whistleblower behind the report leading to an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. 

"I can't wait for these so-called hearings, because I think you are going to find out there was communications between the congressional staff and the alleged whistleblower," Kerik told Fox News' "Fox and Friends." "I don't like calling him a whistleblower. He is a covert operative that was within the administration that put this stuff out there (and ) had no personal knowledge. They changed that reporting requirement, basically so this guy could get this thing public. It's nonsense."

And when show host Steve Doocy asked him if that meant coordination between the two, Kerik replied "absolutely, 100%, 100%. This is an attempted coup of the president of the United States that has been going on for almost three years...this is just another element of it."

Kerik was on the program after accusing Schiff and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Twitter of planting evidence to target Trump for prosecution. 

"Adam Schiff got up in an open public hearing, denounced the president, lied about the conversation the president had with the president of the Ukraine,  and posed that to the American people like the president did something wrong," Kerik said Monday. "The president is obligated by the constitution to call for inquiry or investigation if he thinks there is criminal conduct by a former vice president and I don't think if the guy is running for office or not, it doesn't make any difference."

He also complained that they are targeting former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is Trump's personal attorney.

"There's a whistleblower here, it's not this clown that wrote this document. The whistleblower is Giuliani," said Kerik. "He has been talking about the Biden stuff since last year. Since January of this year. Giuliani has been talking about it. And everybody ignored it."

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