Can Democrats Investigate and Legislate at the Same Time?
NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson reports on the latest national political news from Washington, D.C. including details from a sweeping new probe launched by the House Judiciary Committee.
"There has to be a bipartisan call for impeachment, if that’s not going to happen, the Democrats know that it would be perilous for them to move to impeachment. There could be a political backlash as there was when the Republican House impeached Bill Clinton," says @MaraLiasson.
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Democrats have been waiting until the Mueller report to move on impeachment.
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"I think pretty soon they’re going to be saying ‘it’s too close to an election, the voters need to decide whether not Donald Trump should stay in office, not Congress,’” says @MaraLiasson.
"Can Democrats balance investigating the president with legislating? They want to lay down markers for 2020... show what they would do with healthcare, gun safety and voting rights. They don’t want to just investigate and do nothing else," says @MaraLiasson.
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