Kevin McCarthy says hush payments aren't impeachable offenses

“Listen, you know what concerns me? If you hire an attorney — if I hire an attorney to make sure I carry out the law, the attorney has a responsibility to tell me what’s right and wrong in the process,” McCarthy said. “I watched — this is a — if it’s a finance campaign, those are fines. Those aren’t impeachable in the process.”

McCarthy added that other politicians have done “this exact same thing in the past.”

“So to me, they’re trying to find a case for a — for a problem that doesn’t exist,” he said.