“No One Is Above the Law”: Nancy Pelosi Finally Ends Her Impeachment Buzzkill - News

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Videos can use content-based copyright law contains reasonable use Fair Use ( Just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nancy Pelosi formally endorsed an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump’s behavior in office. The announcement was largely expected by the time the House Speaker took the lectern—despite her reluctance to use the “I-word” as recently as last week. For months, the top Democratic lawmaker has stopped short of supporting impeachment, arguing that it would further divide an already politically broken America. But her backing of an inquiry, which the majority of her caucus has been clamoring for for weeks, marks a sharp turning point for the Democratic Party and perilous new territory for Trump. “Today I’m announcing the House of Representatives is moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry,” Pelosi said. “The president must be held accountable. No one is above the law.” After months of slow-walking, the breaking point for Pelosi was the revelation that Trump had pressed the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter in a July 25 phone call, amid the withholding of more than $391 million in aid to the country. As one congressional source put it, the steady drip of troubling reports about Trump’s interactions with the president of Ukraine created a situation wherein there appeared to be “no off-ramp right now for avoiding impeachment.” “I can say with authority that the Trump administration’s actions undermine both our national security and our intelligence and our protections of the whistleblowers,” Pelosi said. “The actions of the Trump presidency revealed dishonorable facts of the president’s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of national security, and betrayal of the integrity of our elections.” Pelosi’s highly anticipated press conference immediately followed a meeting of the full 235-member Democratic caucus. A source familiar with the dynamics in the closed-door meeting described the mood as “somber,” and said Pelosi presented as having no “sense of urgency or pressure”—despite the gravity of the moment. On Wednesday the House is also expected to take a vote on a resolution condemning Trump’s alleged interactions with Zelensky. And in addition to publicly blessing an impeachment inquiry, during a 3:30 p.m. meeting with leadership on Tuesday, Pelosi also tasked the heads of five investigative committees—House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, Oversight, Ways and Means, and Financial Services—with turning over any evidence they have collected across their various Trump-focused probes to the Judiciary Committee, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler had previously requested evidence from four of the investigatory committees in August. The idea, according to sources, is to consolid

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