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Monday 3 June 2019

Impeachment hangs over Trump, top Dems want public support

By LISA MASCARO tigation. One top leader, timately decline to pursue
AP Congressional Corre- Rep. Jim Clyburn of South impeachment.
spondent Carolina, the Democratic “I think if it is a close call,
WASHINGTON (AP) — The whip, said the president close calls go against put-
threat of impeachment may well face an impeach- ting the country through
hangs over the White ment inquiry in the House. that,” he said.
House, but it also vexes Another, Rep. Adam Schiff Schiff still wants Mueller to
House Democrats wary of of California suggested it’s testify, saying he has a “fi-
taking next steps against not likely soon, if at all. nal duty” to appear before
President Donald Trump Speaker Nancy Pelosi has Congress, even though the

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, Senate without broader public stopped short of pursuing special counsel indicated
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and other support. an impeachment inquiry in a rare public statement
congressional leaders, react to a failed meeting with President Leading Democrats pro- against Trump despite an last week he would prefer
Donald Trump at the White House on infrastructure, at the Capitol vided a snapshot Sunday increasing number of law- to simply have the report
in Washington, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. From left are House of the party wrestling with makers, including some speak for itself.
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the impeachment ques- 2020 presidential contend- “It’s my hope that he will
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chair Peter tions posed by special ers , clamoring to do so. do so, and it’s my hope
DeFazio, D-Ore., Pelosi, House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn,
D-S.C., and Schumer. counsel Robert Mueller’s She’s wary of embarking on that he will do so volun-
Associated Press findings in the Russia inves- a politically divisive debate tarily,” Schiff said. He did
that she worries would all not indicate whether the
but drown out the House’s House would try to compel
policy agenda and cam- Mueller’s testimony with a
paign promises. Lawmakers subpoena.
heard mixed views during The House is poised to hold
a recess week back home Attorney General William
and Pelosi faced those fa- Barr in contempt for failing
voring impeachment dur- to comply with a subpoena
ing the weekend California for a fully unredacted ver-
Democrats’ party meeting. sion of Mueller’s report. Barr
Instead, six House commit- has separately been given
tees are probing deeply new authority by Trump to
into Trump’s business deal- disclose documents and
ings, his running of the gov- information on the origin of
ernment and whether or the Russia probe, a top pri-
not the president obstruct- ority of the president and
ed Mueller’s investigation. his Republican allies on
“What I have said time and Capitol Hill.
time again is, Mueller has Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio,
developed the grounds for the top Republican on the
impeachment. The House Oversight Committee, said
has to determine the timing he, too wants Mueller to
for impeachment. There’s testify so Republicans can
a big difference,” Clyburn pursue their own line of
said on CNN’s “State of the questioning about the Rus-
Union.” sia investigation.
“We are trying to take our “I know this, I got questions
time and do this right,” Cly- for him,” Jordan said on
burn said. “So I don’t see ABC. “Why did you wait al-
this as being out of whack most two years before you
with what the people’s as- told the country there was
pirations are.” no conspiracy between
Schiff, the chairman of the the Trump campaign and
Intelligence Committee, Russia to influence the
signaled the House may ul- election?”q