Pelosi Says Impeachment Hearings Are Not Necessary

Speaker Nancy Pelosi “appeared to tap the brakes on impeachment discussions, arguing in a letter to her colleagues that while Democrats would hold President Trump accountable following the release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report, they could do so without initiating impeachment hearings,” the Washington Post reports.

Pelosi, who is slated to address her caucus on a conference call Monday evening, vowed that Democratic investigators “will scrupulously assert Congress’s constitutional duty to honor our oath of office to support and defend the Constitution and our democracy” by investigating the president.