Beto O'Rourke on impeachment: 'There is enough there to proceed'
By John Bowden - 10/18/18 07:54 PM EDT
Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D) said Thursday during a CNN town hall he has not changed his mind about impeaching President Trump but said Democrats should wait until the results of Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation are revealed.
Asked by CNN's Dana Bash whether he had changed his mind about voting for articles of impeachment in the House after initially saying in July that he would do so, O'Rourke said that he had not.
"I haven't. Let me put it this way. There may be an open question as to whether the president, then the candidate, sought to collude with the Russian government in 2016," O'Rourke told the audience, before explaining that Trump's defense of Russia during a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin earlier this year was "collusion in action."
"[And when in] broad daylight, on Twitter, he asked his attorney general, Jeff sessions, to end the Russia investigation, I would say that's obstruction in action," O'Rourke added.
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