Pelosi to Democrats: 'Are you ready?'
By Mike Lillis and Juliegrace Brufke - 12/04/19 12:26 PM EST
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) marshaled her troops at a closed-door meeting in the Capitol, asking whether they were ready to move forward with impeachment as more and more Democrats question whether a floor vote should be held before Christmas.
During the meeting in the Capitol basement Wednesday morning — where staff and cell phones were not allowed — Pelosi posed a simple question to her caucus: "Are you ready?"
She received an enthusiastic response from the Democrats in the room.
Pelosi's question to her caucus, first reported by CNN, came a day after Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee released an extensive report detailing the findings of their two-month-long investigation into Trump's handling of foreign policy in Kyiv. The report painted a damning picture of Trump leveraging U.S. military aide to Ukraine to press that country's leaders into announcing anti-corruption investigations targeting his political rivals — the episode at the center of the Democrats' impeachment inquiry.
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