House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler told reporters Friday that while his committee continues negotiating with former White House Counsel Don McGahn over an outstanding subpoena for testimony, if there’s no resolution in their discussions, the committee plans to go to court seek their enforcement of the subpoena early next week.
Nadler told reporters that the committee would also be filing an application for the grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report.
“The Depart of Justice policies will not allow prosecution of a siting president, the house is the only institution that can now hold President Trump accountable for these actions. To do so the house must have access all the relevant facts,” Nadler said.
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He added “We will continue to seek testimony from key fact witnesses..our work will continue into the August recess.”
McGahn, who was prominently featured in the Mueller report, told the special counsel’s team in hours of interviews that the president had ordered him to fire Mueller and he refused. He has already defied a subpoena by the House panel, declining to testify when the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel claimed executive privilege.
Asked about the growing calls amongst the Democratic caucus to file articles of impeachment for Mr. Trump, Nadler told reporters it would be something the committee may or may not consider down the road.
“We may decide to recommend articles of impeachment at some point. We may not,” he predicted.
While House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to resist those calls, Nadler said the caucus will “do what we have to” to hold the president accountable. He appeared in lockstep, however, with the speaker’s assessment that in order to impeach, “we must make the strongest possible case.”
Rebecca Kaplan and Emily Tillett contributed reporting.
