US President Donald Trump has responded to speculation that he might be impeached by warning that any such move would damage the economy, reports BBC.
In an interview with Fox & Friends, he said the market would crash and "everybody would be very poor".
He was speaking after Michael Cohen, his ex-lawyer, pleaded guilty to violating election laws and said he had been directed to do so by Trump.
Trump has rarely spoken about the prospect of being impeached.
"I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job," Trump told Fox and Friends.
"I tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash, I think everybody would be very poor."
Pointing to his head, he said: "Because without this thinking, you would see numbers that you wouldn't believe in reverse."
However, Trump insisted the two payments had not broken election campaign rules.
He said that the payments had come from him personally, not from the campaign, but he had not known about them until "later on".
In July, Cohen released audio tapes of him and Trump allegedly discussing one of the payments before the election.
The president also accused Cohen of making up stories to receive a lighter sentence.

“I don't know how you can impeach somebody who's done a great job. I tell you what, if I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash.” –President @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/b22iGKE7iu

— FOX & friends (@foxandfriends) August 23, 2018

He added: "And by the way, he pled to two counts that aren't a crime, which nobody understands.
"In fact, I watched a number of [TV] shows. Sometimes you get some pretty good information by watching shows. Those two counts aren't even a crime. They weren't campaign finance."