--- title: Donald Trump Impeachment Begins if Mueller Fired, Lieu Says description: Rep. Ted Lieu said Congress will start impeachment if Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein canonical: https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-17T19:02:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T16:12:08.575Z article:section: Politics og:title: Ted Lieu Says Congress Will Start Impeachment Process If Trump Fires Investigators og:description: "No one is above the law" og:url: https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5173a16ba5b6551/6988d23bcd1bbaa7cf705b2e/gettyimages-584444186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ted-lieu-impreachment-congress-trump og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ted Lieu Says Congress Will Start Impeachment Process If Trump Fires Investigators twitter:description: "No one is above the law" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5173a16ba5b6551/6988d23bcd1bbaa7cf705b2e/gettyimages-584444186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Ted Lieu Says Congress Will Start Impeachment Process If Trump Fires Investigators by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 17, 2017 7:02 PM UTC  US Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) US Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA)Photograph by Alex Wong—Getty by [Lisa Marie Segarra](https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/) ## Lisa Marie Segarra Jun 17, 2017 7:02 PM UTC Representative Ted Lieu of [California](http://www.thedrive.com/news/10928/waze-carpool-expands-to-serve-all-of-california) said he believes Congress will start the [impeachment process](http://time.com/4740923/allan-lichtman-case-for-impeachment-donald-trump/) if President Donald Trump fires special counsel Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. “All Americans, regardless of party, agree on the fundamental principle that no one is above the law,” Lieu said [in an interview with MSNBC Friday.](http://thehill.com/homenews/house/338244-dem-lawmaker-congress-would-begin-impeachment-if-trump-fired-mueller) “And if President Trump were to fire Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, and then got special counsel Mueller fired, I believe Congress would begin impeachment proceedings.” The remarks come after President Trump took to Twitter to claim there was a “witch hunt” against him and stating that he was [personally under investigation for firing ](http://time.com/4821334/president-trump-confirmed-investigation-comey/)former FBI Director James Comey. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/"},"headline":"Ted Lieu Says Congress Will Start Impeachment Process If Trump Fires Investigators","datePublished":"2017-06-17T19:02:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T16:12:08.575Z","description":"\"No one is above the law\"","url":"https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/","keywords":["White House","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5173a16ba5b6551/6988d23bcd1bbaa7cf705b2e/gettyimages-584444186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lisa Marie Segarra","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lisa-marie-segarra/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5173a16ba5b6551/6988d23bcd1bbaa7cf705b2e/gettyimages-584444186.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ted-lieu-impreachment-congress-trump","caption":"Democratic National Convention: Day Four","creditText":"Photograph by Alex Wong—Getty","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4822829/donald-trump-ted-lieu-congress-impeachment/","name":"Ted Lieu Says Congress Will Start Impeachment Process If Trump Fires Investigators"}}]}] ```