
Inside the Attempts of Congress to Impeach Trump
Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan
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The Impeachment - What a Difficult Vote?
Democrats were afraid to use the full weight of their oversight power for fear it would come back to bite them or hamstring them long term. Nancy Pelosi did not want her moderate Democrats, Democrats representing districts Trump won to have to take difficult votes that they didn't have to then explain during their next elections. The other things she sort of did and we haven't sort of hit on this yet was she wanted everything to focus only on Ukraine. There are all these different threads that Democrats wanted to pull, but Pelosi said no, we're going to focus only about Ukraine.
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