Reality TV Democrats
Surely all the pundits will fill the weekend airwaves a-twitter with pronouncements of Democratic division over future impeachment moves.
The chatter had already begun in earnest early Friday. The Daily Beast reported “‘There Is Constant Battling’: Nadler and Pelosi Are on a Collision Course.”
In her final weekly press conference before Congress breaks for six weeks, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said: “I’m not slow-walking impeachment. … No, I’m not trying to run out the clock.” She added former special counsel Robert Mueller “confirmed” in his public testimony before two House committees Wednesday “that the president has obstructed justice,” and now Democrats are pursuing the question in the courts in order to investigate the president’s finances and they expect that effort to strengthen their hand.
Later in another press conference House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler said his committee is filing an application for the grand jury material underlying the Mueller report and “we will continue to seek testimony from key Russian probe witnesses [including former White House counsel Don McGahn].”