House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler says the Justice Department should release any and all important evidence Special Counsel Robert Mueller found concerning President Donald Trump during his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election considering the circumstances.

Normal DOJ rules prevent the disclosure of such information after an investigation.

"Normally that’s a very good rule," Nadler said during an appearance on Fox News Sunday.

"If you don’t have enough evidence to judge someone on a crime, you shouldn’t sully their name. However, the Justice Department believes that as a matter of law, the president no matter what the evidence, can never be indicted on anything because he is the president. ... Once you say that a president cannot be held indictable no matter what the evidence, as a matter of law, to then follow the principle that you can’t then comment on the evidence or publicize it is to convert that into a cover-up."

He added: "If a president cannot be indicted because as a matter of law -- then the only way a president can be held accountable is for Congress to consider it an act if warranted, and Congress can only do that if it has the information. For the department to take the position that, we’re not going to give information because he’s not indicted, like a normal person, he’s not indicted because a lack of evidence, is equivalent to a cover-up."

Nadler stressed that “the president, no more than anybody else, cannot be above the law," and said that congress will continue to investigate Trump.

"The job of Congress is much broader than the job of the special counsel. The special counsel is looking and can only look for crimes. We have to protect the rule of law, we have to look for abuses of power, we have to look for obstructions of justice, we have to look for corruption in the exercise of power which may not be crimes."