House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said he believes "impeachment is a long way down the road" and they "don’t have any facts yet." | AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Congress Nadler: Dozens of document requests to be sent in Trump probe

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, on Sunday said the panel will be issuing document requests to more than 60 people as it begins an investigation of President Donald Trump for “obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power.“

“Tomorrow we will be issuing document requests from over 60 different people from the White House, to the Department of Justice, Donald Trump Jr., Allen Weisselberg to begin the investigations to present the case to the American people about obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power,” the New York Democrat told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week.”


Nadler said the full list would be released Monday.

Weisselberg, chief financial officer of the Trump Organization, was singled out by Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen last week during his testimony to Congress in discussion of possible crimes relating to campaign finance. Weisselberg was granted immunity last summer by Manhattan federal prosecutors to testify against Cohen.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the committee also plans on requesting documents from other members of Trump’s extended family: son Eric Trump, daughter Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Also on the list: former White House chief of staff John Kelly.

Cohen testified that Trump Jr. and Ivanka attended numerous briefings on the Trump Tower Moscow project, and that Eric Trump may have signed checks relating to adult film star Stormy Daniels.

“What we learned from the Cohen testimony,“ Nadler said Sunday, “is that he directly implicated the president in — in various crimes, both while seeking the office of president and while in the White House.“

When asked by Stephanopoulos what he has observed of the Trump administration, Nadler said: “We’ve seen real threats to the rule of law from this White House, whether personal enrichment — the White House seems to have used its power for personal enrichment in violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution, we’ve seen abuses of power, obstruction of justice, threats to the Mueller investigation, threats to witnesses.“

But Nadler said that he believes "impeachment is a long way down the road" and they "don’t have any facts yet," although he did state he believed that Trump is guilty of obstructing justice concerning the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Nadler also said he considers the act “of seeking to sabotage a fair election” would “be an impeachable offense.”

In response, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said that Nadler "decided to impeach the president the day the president won the election."

McCarthy (R-Calif.) also said the Democrats are beginning their own investigations as an end run around the results of the upcoming Mueller report.

"Nadler is setting the framework now that the Democrats are not to believe the Mueller report. They’re now saying we have to do our own investigation," McCarthy said.