House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has issued scattershot subpoenas seemingly designed to reinvent the Mueller report. In fact, we believe that the Mueller Report, as likely intended by Mueller, was designed precisely to provide the impetus for an impeachment proceeding based upon allegations of obstruction against the president, if the Congress were of a mind to do so. And, we believe, there would easily be sufficient evidence to support initiating such a proceeding.

But Chairman Schiff, presumably with the support of the Committee, has frankly gone way over the top—or stooped to a new low. No longer is the focus on whether the Trump campaign “colluded” (or more properly said, “conspired”) with the Russians, or whether the president or his family members conspired or attempted to obstruct the Mueller investigation, as it should be. Rather, the question now appears to be: What did lawyers for members of the Trump family do to somehow help Michael Cohen (then still a member in good standing on Team Trump) falsify his 2017 statement to the Committee about the proposed Moscow Trump Tower? Why the shift in the Committee’s focus? The issue should be whether Trump and his Campaign engaged in wrongdoing, not whether the president’s former lawyer, Michael Cohen, who is already in jail, was assisted in his obstruction before the Committee by highly respected veteran lawyers.