Former Trump attorney Micheal Cohen showed "credible evidence" during his congressional testimony earlier this week that the president committed "very serious crimes" while in office, and Congress must "consider impeachment," if necessary, Rep. Jim Himes said Friday.
“There is a huge amount of evidence that would implicate the president,” the Connecticut Democrat told MSNBC's "Morning Joe." “There are at least four or five areas where there is credible evidence that the president committed very serious crimes."
Department of Justice guidelines do not allow for a sitting president to be indicted, so Congress must consider impeachment, which Himes pointed out is a trial, not an ouster.
"It is a consideration of behavior and whether that behavior is consistent with being president," Himes said. "Democrats have got to focus on what got us elected, but If there is compelling evidence that the president committed crimes — and it sure looks look there is an awful lot of that out there — we’re in a little bit of a box, because the DOJ is telling us you are the only mechanism for accountability in the face of evidence of wrongdoing.”
The lawmaker is on the House Intelligence Committee, which heard closed-door testimony from Cohen. However, Himes was commenting on the testimony the now-disbarred attorney offered in public before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.