(CNN) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called on Friday for legislation to ensure sitting US presidents can be indicted for crimes.

"I do think that we will have to pass some laws that will have clarity for future presidents. (A) President should be indicted if he's committed a wrongdoing — any president," Pelosi told NPR's "All Things Considered" host Ari Shapiro and NPR congressional correspondent Susan Davis on Friday.

"There is nothing any place that says the President should not be indicted," she said. "That's something cooked up by the President's lawyers. That's what that is."

A Nixon-era opinion from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel guides against indicting sitting presidents. Former special counsel Robert Mueller testified during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in July that during the course of his investigation into Russian influence efforts during the 2016 election, his office did not consider charging President Donald Trump with any crimes because of the OLC opinion.

"We did not start that process down the road," he said

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