Democrats are playing the long game against President Trump
1 / 2Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at her weekly news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2019. Pelosi says the U.S. must avoid war with Iran, and she says the White House has"no business" moving toward a Middle East confrontation without approval from Congress.
"Things are coming to a tipping point," said Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the Judiciary Committee."We're running out of options," said another on the panel, Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla."I think we're on the road," said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif. Democrats say they're not ready to impeach the president. But opening an impeachment inquiry would provide legal weight to their investigations that would be tougher for the administration to ignore. Already, a judge indicated last week Congress may have a right to review some of Trump's financial documents. As Trump instructs his White House to reject the requests from Congress, more legal battles are coming.
Pelosi, though, signaled she is in no rush to get there. Next week, there will be more steps in the process as Congress delves into Trump's finances and possible obstruction of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election. But as a federal court moved quickly in the case in which Trump is attempting to block Congress from his financial records, Schiff said,"what we have seen thus far has been very encouraging."
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