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The likely next chairman of the House Judiciary Committee believes President Trump committed an impeachable offense if he directed Michael Cohen, his former fixer, to pay hush money during the 2016 campaign to women claiming to have had extramarital affairs with him years ago.

“They would be impeachable offenses, whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question, but certainly they’d [be] impeachable offenses because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office,” Rep. Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., told CNN.

“The new Congress will not try to shield the president,” he added. “We will try to get to the bottom of this in order to serve the American people and to stop this massive fraud on the American people.”

Nadler, however, stopped short of saying those offenses would automatically lead to impeachment proceedings.

“An impeachment is an attempt to, in effect, overturn or change the result of the last election, and you should do it only in very serious situations, so that’s always the question,” he said.

Nadler’s comments come after federal prosecutors in New York filed a sentencing memo Friday recommending that Cohen spend a “substantial” amount of time in prison. In August, Cohen pleaded guilty to a range of charges, including two related to efforts ahead of the 2016 election to silence women like porn star Stormy Daniels from going public about their alleged affairs with Trump.

Prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York on Friday also said Cohen told them he had committed some of the crimes “in coordination with and at the direction of individual one,” who is widely believed to be Trump.