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"I think the Department of Justice needs to re-examine this opinion from the OLC, the Office of Legal Counsel, that you can not charge a sitting president in circumstances where it could mean that person escapes justice "" Schiff
Schiff, future chairman of the House's intelligence committee, told CNN that there should be an exception to the opinion of the office of the legal adviser if a president leaves his post and if "can no longer be brought to justice."
"I do not think the Department of Justice should take a stand – and this is certainly not a position that would not be required in any way by the Constitution – that a president simply by being in office may be above the law (…), "Schiff told CNN.
That a president in office can not be impeached is the position of the counsel's office since the Nixon's D government was reaffirmed under the Clinton administration, but it has never been tested in court.
" investigators found potentially criminal evidence against President Donald Trump, the team of special advocate Robert Mueller would try to challenge the directions of the Department of Justice.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN on Wednesday that he would ask the legal council office "to obtain a notice that would retract his previous opinion, stating that the president could not be put in charge".
"I firmly believe that the president himself can be charged," said the Connecticut Democrat in an interview with CNN's "Anderson Cooper 360."
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