Pelosi Will Support Impeachment Proceedings Within Two Weeks?

After Mueller declined to draw a legal conclusion about whether Trump’s attempts to interfere in his investigation were unlawful, Attorney General William Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the president’s conduct was not. The Mueller Report does state that it found no criminal conspiracy between Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia, this narrative has since been dropped by the Democrats.

The special counsel’s silence on the obstruction of justice question is now central to lawmakers’ discussion about how to respond.

Adam Schiff said it remains unlikely that an impeachment trial against President Trump would succeed in the Republican-controlled Senate. “We see no signs of that yet,” he said. If Democrats are forced to pursue impeachment proceedings, Schiff added, it “has less to do with Justin Amash and more to do with the fact that the administration is engaging in a maximum obstructionism campaign against Congress.”

A key Democrat said Sunday that Republican Rep. Justin Amash’s sharp criticism of what he called President Donald Trump’s “impeachable conduct” in the Russia investigation isn’t enough to count as bipartisan support to launch impeachment proceedings. 

On Saturday, Justin Amash the representative from Michigan’s 3rd district became the first Republican member of Congress to call for impeachment.

Democrats who control the House are locked in a bitter standoff with the White House as it ignores lawmakers’ requests for the more complete version of Mueller’s report, the underlying evidence and witness testimony. Some Democrats wants the House to open impeachment hearings, but Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has resisted, saying impeachment must be bipartisan. 

House Democrat leaders are pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hard for her to give her approval ‘ASAP’ for commencing impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, according to several reports Monday evening. Pelosi has thus far refused to give her blessing to impeachment, with the same sentiment as Schiff, it remains unlikely that an impeachment trial against President Trump would succeed in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Fox News Congressional reporter Chad Pergram claims that a senior Democrat House member is predicting Pelosi will succumb within two weeks to pressure from the majority of the Democrat caucus that supports impeachment and switch to giving her approval.