(CNN) A prosecutor who helped investigate President Bill Clinton said Friday that Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, arguing that the Constitution empowers Congress to address the type of evidence found in the Mueller report.

Former Whitewater prosecutor Stephen Binhak said that special counsel Robert Mueller's report unearthed the same type of evidence against Trump as the Saturday Night Massacre -- when President Richard Nixon asked Justice Department leadership to fire Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor investigating him, and then fired them when they refused -- revealed about Nixon. Binhak's comments came Friday in an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett.

"We learned from Nixon that the Saturday Night Massacre with the firing of Archibald Cox -- that is, an interference with the investigation into Nixon -- was enough to spur an impeachment inquiry on the House side, and I think the same evidence exists here," Binhak told Burnett.

Binhak referenced the report's finding that Trump asked former White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Mueller, but McGahn refused and threatened to resign instead of participating in another possible "Saturday Night Massacre."

"When the President acts in that way, there's a political solution," Binhak said, adding that the Constitution considers how "Congress should have vigorous oversight of the executive branch -- in this case, that's opening up hearings and seeing what happened, and seeing if impeachment, articles of impeachment should be returned."

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