House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, during a private dinner on Wednesday night with a few dozen conservatives, took aim at “fake news,” declared the “legacy media is dead,” and expressed skepticism that special counsel Robert Mueller would find any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russians during the 2016 election.

Nunes, whose Republican-led committee on Monday released its findings that there was no collusion, said that Democrats, with the help of the media, are hyping the Russia story because it’s key to their plans of motivating their voters ahead of the 2018 election, and warned that Republicans could face massive nationwide losses if their own voters are unmotivated.