Top Democratic lawmakers weighed the possibility of pursuing impeachment actions against President Donald Trump in response to Mueller's report.
on his two-year investigation could open the door to impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
"That's going to be a very consequential decision and one that I'm going to reserve judgment on until we've had a chance to fully deliberate on it," Schiff said."We are unfortunately in an environment today where the GOP leadership, people like Kevin McCarthy, are willing to carry the president's water no matter how corrupt or unethical or dishonest the president's conduct may be," he said.
Though the report said investigators could not pursue charges against the president for obstruction of justice, they were also unable to"reach a judgment" that"the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice."there are still dozens of unresolved investigative threads and court cases connected to the Russia investigation.
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said obstruction of justice"would be impeachable" but only"if proven."
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