House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is "caught in a box" when it comes for impeachment because she knows beginning proceedings would create a backlash that would eventually benefit President Donald Trump, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said Wednesday after she accused the president of being engaged in a cover-up.
"While many of her members are calling for impeachment, she is trying to keep that talk squelched," Sen. Cornyn told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "But really, what they're doing is squandering what they got in the last election, a working majority in the House of Representatives to work with us and work together to try to pass legislation that would benefit the American people."
Trump, during a series of early morning tweets, said Democrats are on a fishing expedition against him, and Cornyn agreed.
"It is important to remember Congress has a very different role from the Department of Justice and the special counsel," Cornyn said. "Ours is to do oversight of the laws that we pass to see if new changes need to be made or reforms need to be considered."
Cornyn added it is not a "legitimate scope of oversight" for Congress to get hold of Trump's tax returns, and to call former White House lawyer Don McGahn in for a hearing was not right, as confidential communications between a White House counsel and the president have always been protected.
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