Speaker Nancy Pelosi on fallout over Pres. Trump's Ukraine call: 'We have many other, shall we say, candidates for impeachable offense in terms of the Constitution...but this one is the most understandable by the public.'
President Donald Trump on Tuesday promised to release an unredacted transcript of a phone call with Ukraine's president that has triggered a new Democratic push for impeachment, just hours before House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was scheduled to make a major announcement on the issue.....You will see it was a very friendly and totally appropriate call.
The developments came amid new revelations about Trump's call with Ukraine's president and new questions about whether he made aid to Ukraine contingent on its agreeing to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter. Democratic sources familiar with Pelosi’s deliberations tell ABC News one option under consideration is forming a select committee to handle impeachment and a potential investigation into the new national security whistleblower complaint over the Trump call. The select committee would be separate from the House Judiciary Committee inquiry into whether Trump committed obstruction if justice.
Pelosi will huddle this afternoon with her leadership team, the chairmen of six committees investigating the president and will hold a special caucus meeting to discuss impeachment. At the United Nations Tuesday, Trump insisted he had done nothing improper and called the new impeachment talk"ridiculous and a"witch hunt."
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