Jeff Flake Warns of Impeachment If Trump Fires Mueller: ‘The Only Remedy Is on the Back End’

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BLITZER: "Yesterday you said this about Robert Mueller, in charge of the Russian probe. You said this. We are begging the president not to fire the special counsel. Don’t create a constitutional crisis. Congress cannot preempt such a firing. Our only constitutional remedy is after the fact through impeachment. No one wants that outcome, Mr. President, please don’t go there. Very strong words. Are you saying you’ll be ready to impeach the president is he fires Mueller?
FLAKE: "I’m saying, please don’t fire Mueller. We don’t need that. The president doesn’t need. That he has Mueller doing this because he fired Comey. And there are some pieces of legislation that have been introduced to kind of preempt such a firing. I’m not certain that those, and I don’t believe that they are constitutional. There’s very little Congress can do to preempt that. The only remedy is on the back end and none of us want to get there. So I think it behooves all of my colleagues to say and more loudly, please, Mr. President, don’t go there. The tweets where he seems to be sochbling the ground by undermining the special counsel, that he may be willing to go there. I hope he doesn’t.
BLITZER: "Is there another Republican would join you in pushing for impeachment, a huge if.
FLAKE: "I know prior to any comments I made, Lindsey Graham was asked. That kind of obstruction of justice. And Lindsey said yet. There are others. Believe me, there are others who haven’t said it who believe that that would constitute obstruction of justice if there is no cause for the firing.
BLITZER: "Pretty extraordinary to hear a Republican. A few Democrats have used the I-word, as they say. But for you, that was very strong. A lot your Republican colleagues say they have no serious fears about the president actually firing Robert Mueller. But I heard you suggest that privacy they have a different view?
FLAKE: "Oh, yes can. I think there’s concern. There is hope by everyone that he doesn’t go there and I hope that’s the case. There are statements out of White House that they don’t plan on doing that but some of the tweets over the weekend seem did indicate that he was softening the ground for that."