nancy pelosi. what does she have as a top line this morning? nancy pelosi held her weekly press conference. she does it every thursday. she started by talking about policy, making the point that house democrats, she says, have passed 275 bills that have effectively died on the desk of majority leader mitch mcconnell, the top senate republican. she talked about that and then the news of the day, which is impeachment. she didn t give much in the way of a timeline. i ll get to that later. i asked her about this point. there was a time it s hard to belief n believe now there was a time when nancy pelosi wouldn t utter the phrase impeachment inquiry because she didn t fully embrace it and she thought to say that phrase in public would give it relevance and significance. she said that one of the reasons she was cautious about approaching impeachment, this is well before september 24th when the formal inquiry was announced, she said it was a long and arduous process, that democrats woul
here among democrats is they need something that s easily digestible for the general public. they need very easy, simple takeaways that we saw during watergate. certainly the clinton impeachment hearing had a lot of that. and i think that s where the trump tweets come in. there was something that was easily digestible. if you continue to have trump tweeting, i think the democrats are really going to try and bait him into doing so, especially as gordon sondland, but also alexander vindman testify a little bit later this week. these are things that can really help break through and might improve their case. andrew, there was a time, it s hard to believe this now, but there was a time when the house speaker was resistant to impeachment, so resistant to it that she wouldn t even use the phrase impeachment inquiry because she thought to say that would lend it legitimacy. i asked her one time in the press conference and she said she was resistant to it because she said it would be a long,
what s going on we don t need it. what s going on is that i think too much has been made of the phrase impeachment inquiry. so, clearly there s confusion on capitol hill and outside capitol hill this weekend as the house judiciary chair jerry nadler there tries to tamp down impeachment talks. it comes after his committee revealed that lawmakers need to see mueller s secret grand jury evidence to determine whether to introduce articles of impeachment. watch as democrats try to clarify their stance today. you are investigating possible impeachment. but you haven t formally opened an impeachment inquiry. we re not trying to have it both ways. there are articles of impeachment that have been recommended to the committee. we are investigating.
friday night. what is in a name? take a listen. there s no difference between what you re doing now and impeachment inquiry, correct? in effect. this is an impeachment investigation. we re crossing a threshold. absolutely. okay. democrats on the house judiciary committee have officially opened an impeachment inquiry. what s going on is that i think too much has been made of the phrase impeachment inquiry. you can define it as you please. undoubtedly, we are collecting overwhelming evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president of the united states. hence the romeo and juliet illusions here. however, there is nothing poetic about the play being made here. however, just like romeo and juliet, no matter how much you wish otherwise, what you call something matters.
all right. i burned a loft calories on this one. what is in a name? take a listen. there s no difference between what you re doing now and impeachment inquiry, correct? in effect. this is an impeachment investigation. we re crossing a threshold. absolutely. okay. democrats on the house judiciary committee have officially opened an impeachment inquiry. what s going on is that i think too much has been made of the phrase impeachment inquiry. you can define it as you please. we are collecting evidence ov high crimes and misdemeanors committed by the president of the united states. hence the romeo and jewel yet illusion. there s nothing poetic about the