WATCH LIVE: Pelosi Addresses Status Of Impeachment Inquiry - NPR

Enlarge this image

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is addressing the status of the impeachment inquiry in a statement at the Capitol on Thursday. J. Scott Applewhite/AP hide caption

toggle caption

J. Scott Applewhite/AP

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will make a statement from the Capitol on Thursday morning to give an update on the impeachment inquiry into President Trump, as Democrats have been deliberating how to proceed.

Watch Pelosi's statement live here; it is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. ET.

Members of Pelosi's caucus met behind closed doors on Wednesday, ahead of the first impeachment hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. That panel is charged with drafting articles of impeachment and heard from constitutional scholars, who gave their assessments of whether President Trump's efforts to get Ukraine to investigate political rivals met the level of impeachable offenses.

Democrats have disagreed over the scope of eventual articles of impeachment, whether they should be narrowly drafted to focus on the Ukraine scandal or whether they should be broadened out to include findings of former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible obstruction of that investigation by President Trump.

The White House declined to take part in the House Judiciary hearing, while continuing to complain that Democrats have not provided ample opportunity to defend the president. Senate Republicans met with members of the White House staff on Wednesday to plot strategy for a possible Senate trial that would follow a House vote approving articles of impeachment.

Trump tweeted ahead of Pelosi's statement. "The Do Nothing Democrats had a historically bad day yesterday in the House. They have no Impeachment case and are demeaning our country," he wrote in part. The president also urged Democrats to move quickly on impeachment "so that our Country can get back to business."

.....trial in the Senate, and so that our Country can get back to business. We will have Schiff, the Bidens, Pelosi and many more testify, and will reveal, for the first time, how corrupt our system really is. I was elected to “Clean the Swamp,” and that’s what I am doing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 5, 2019

Let's block ads! (Why?)

"watch" - Google News
December 05, 2019 at 08:51PM
https://ift.tt/3892xAo

WATCH LIVE: Pelosi Addresses Status Of Impeachment Inquiry - NPR
"watch" - Google News
https://ift.tt/2RhttI7
Shoes Man Tutorial
Pos News Update
Meme Update
Korean Entertainment News
Japan News Update

Bagikan Berita Ini