Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley hinted Wednesday that it may be inevitable that his panel investigates President Trump for obstruction of justice as part of its probe into the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

“I don’t want to say for sure. But I don’t know how you can avoid it,” Grassley said to Politico regarding questions of obstruction of justice in his investigation. “Because the FBI was investigating it before there was a special counsel.”

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