Nancy Pelosi's impeachment remarks were laughable | By Scott Jennings for CNNOpinion
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor, is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and former campaign adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell. He is a partner at RunSwitch Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter @ScottJenningsKY. The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's laughable announcement this week that she lacked enthusiasm for impeaching President Donald Trump ignored three things: the wishes of several vocal members in her conference, the bloodthirstiness of her party's base and the credibility of Adam Schiff. Scott JenningsHer political instinct is correct -- impeaching a president is divisive and could backfire, as it did on Republicans after the 1998 impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Even so, the minute I heard Pelosi's words I thought -- there's no way her conference will uniformly see it her way.
Pelosi on impeaching Trump: He's just not worth it 02:49Democratic Rep. Brad Sherman of California told Jake Tapper on CNN that"you don't have to wait [for impeachment] until you know every felony the President has committed." Sherman pressed on, appearing to say that Trump is guilty of felonies until the government says he isn't. OK.Finally, Rep.
Ocasio-Cortez, Pelosi team up to pressure moderate Dems 02:37He now says Pelosi is"absolutely right." But what has he been saying for the last two years about the issue of Russian collusion? Let's take a walk down memory lane:Schiff said that evidence of Russian collusion is"in plain sight," on February 17 of this year, and that the evidence of collusion was"pretty compelling." On March 3, Schiff said there is"direct evidence" of collusion.
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