Rep. Raskin: If the President Were Any Other American, He’d Be Prosecuted and Jailed

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RASKIN: "Well, look, here’s the critical thing. More than 800 federal prosecutors, former federal prosecutors, Democrats and Republicans, as well as the former FBI Director, James Comey, have said that what they’re reading in the pages of the Mueller report is an open and shut case of obstruction of justice. And if the president were any other American citizen, he would be hauled into court and prosecuted and probably sent to jail. So, that’s obviously very serious business for the House Judiciary Committee and for the Congress because it’s our job to oversee the executive branch of government. We’re the Article I law making branch. The president’s job is just to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. But if he’s frustrating the laws, if he's thwarting the laws and violating them, that does create a huge constitutional problem for us. So you can call it a crisis, you can call it a confrontation, or you can call it a constitutional collapse or chaos, what Trump has brought us, but we do have to deal with the lawlessness that is coming out of the White House."