Nadler on New Dem Probe: ‘We Have to Make Sure This is Not a Dictatorship’

House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler spoke to CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday just hours after the Democratic-controlled committee announced sweeping investigations into President Donald Trump‘s world.

During the interview — in which he carefully avoided decisive talk about impeachment — Nadler said Trump wants the dictatorial power to do “what he wants, when he wants.”

Then, when asked to respond to criticism he is just trying to kill Trump’s presidency with a thousand cuts, he said this:

We’re simply exercising our oversight jurisdiction. And he’s not — he doesn’t understand or he’s not willing to concede to Congress that we have an oversight jurisdiction. We have to — you’ve had two years of sustained attacks by an administration of the nature that we haven’t seen probably in a century or more, against the free press, against the courts, against law enforcement administrations….against freedom of speech.

Further, in response to a question about Trump possibly trying to get the Justice Department to intervene in a merger, Nadler once again suggested that the rule of law needed to be respected.

“We have to make sure, as to what is true and what is not true,” Nadler said. “And maybe come up with legislative limits on power or maybe do other things. But we have to make sure that this is not a dictatorship and that the rule of law is respected.”

Watch above, via CNN

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