Pelosi to impatient Democrats: We’ve got Trump on the ropes
Shortly after she’d left a fiery White House meeting, during which the president had threatened to stop working with her on all legislative matters, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was asked to speculate why she, more than others, seemed to fluster President Trump.
The task of calming nerves was supposed to fall to Doug Letter, the House Democrat’s general counsel. But he was busy dealing with one of the party’s growing list of lawsuits against the Trump administration. And so, the speaker turned it over to relevant committee chairs to lay out the investigative progress they’d made to soothe their more anxious colleagues.
“Thinking two, three moves ahead about what the political implications are,” said Kildee, “in 10 or 15 years I’m not gonna be able to explain that to my grandchildren. That we have a lawless president who’s completely out of control and I start to explain what our tactics were—our obligations go much deeper than that.”
And Rep. Hakeem Jeffries , the Democratic caucus chair, made a strikingly political case that impeachment would prove, for now, counterproductive. The problem, he argued, was not that congressional Republicans would oppose it but that congressional Democrats would.
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