It will not be in the best interests of the United States. It will start a road to impeachment, and a very dangerous and needless to say regrettable fissure in the U.S. body politic.
The stupidest thing is if the President would just start watching the National Geographic Nature Channel or the Numismatics Channel rather than watching and reacting to the news channels, this will all eventually blow over. There really doesn't appear to be any meat on the bones, there may be lots of noise, but there won't be indictments or convictions.
