Higgins Discusses Next Step in Potential Impeachment Inquiry

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BUFFALO (WBEN) - Last week, former Special Counsel Robert Mueller testified on Capitol Hill. Since then, there has been in an increase in the number of Democrats within the House of Representatives who are in favor of moving forward with an impeachment inquiry.

Breaking: A majority of House Democrats — 118 of 235 — have now called for opening an impeachment inquiry into Trump, according to the NBC News count. https://t.co/IrfM3kOd5A

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"The impeachment inquiry is a process to strengthen the oversight hand of Congress," said Congressman Brian Higgins on Friday afternoon. "Right now, the administration is ignoring subpoenas of individuals and information, which is important to flush out what the Mueller report did not complete, and that is 11 areas of likely or potential administration obstruction of justice."

Higgins says finishing the investigation is the responsibility of Congress, and he added that he's somewhat confused on what legal steps the Mueller report actually suggests.

"It's our obligation to the American people, consistent with our Constitutional duties, to carry out a full and fair investigation to determine whether or not, conclusively, obstruction of justice did in fact occur," he said. "He says in once section of the report that a Department of Justice memo that's over 40 years old indicates that you can't indict a sitting President, and yet later in his report, he says nobody is above the law, so it's either or."

Essentially, Higgins is saying that there's too much evidence to suggest that this process should be close to completion.

"The Mueller report resulted in 200 criminal indictments of 34 individuals and three organizations," said Higgins. "The President's personal lawyer is serving prison time, as is his former campaign manager, and the Mueller report was incomplete, and it's Congress' responsibility to carry it out to its logical conclusion, wherever the facts lead us."