Although the House has voted to formally outline the impeachment inquiry process, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) still isn’t exactly advertising herself as the strongest advocate of the effort — but she indicated Trump’s actions toward Ukraine “could not be ignored.”
It turns out the Pelosi’s strategy of “leading from behind,” i.e. not only the Dems, the rest of the House, and the American people, has been very, very effective in garnering support for impeachment. No one can call her strident in this matter.
When Colbert pressed her on whether she has “any doubt,” citing how she specifically just said that Trump “possibly violated” his oath of office, Pelosi dodged the question
Yes, she did dodge the question and that is OK.
Good interview.
Love me some Nancy.
Now now, in many cases, that has a different name with less negative connotations…
I watched the entire interview last night and I would not characterize it as lamenting the need for impeachment. She was serious and continually cited the Constitution, national security, POTUS undermining our elections, and schooling folks on the three co-equal branches. She was not celebratory. It was a good interview and Colbert is better at this than many journalists.
So far, Pelosi has handled this quite well. What I find interesting about all of this is while impeachment is the method for removing a chief executive, Donnie is more of an ancillary target. The REAL target is the U.S. SENATE.
I can just imagine all the GOP Coc–I mean Republican—Senators on the campaign trail in 2020 insisting they are not lickspittle slaves to Cheetoh Jesus after they vote not guilty on impeachment despite the pile of evidence to the contrary the Democrats present 
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Colbert is smart and well-informed. He’s the best we have of his type since Jon Stewart retired.
And Speaker Pelosi is right. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do.
She’s good and I’m glad she’s good.
Now the talking heads are POLL freaks,PLEASE spare us MSM with your polls.Impeachment is ON !
I’m with her
Great clip! It’s actually even more impressive when Border collies do their real work, with real sheep.
Came across this today, not a big surprise but good to know. SF Bay Area House members (and later on our two senators Harris and Feinstein) will be featured in the impeachment process.
Democrats Lofgren, Swalwell, Speier, DeSaulnier, Khanna, Thompson, and two Rs McCarthy, Nunes.
@dicktater Think of Pelosi as a shepherdess, with a good number of Democratic CA House members her flock.
Well done, Mr. Shuham. It’s not a “transcript”, it’s an edited and possibly doctored memo and should be called that by all…
So, with actual Republicans?
Before the inevitable appearance of the Pelosi-bashers, I’d just like to express my opinion that the “more in sorrow than in anger” approach to impeachment is an effective one. It presents the process not as a coup, but as the inescapable reaction to Trump’s own actions. It presents impeachment not, as in the case of Bill Clinton, as the result of an endless search for something, anything, to impeach the president for, but as the result of Trump coming to Congress and saying “impeach me”.
I watched the interview. I thought she struck the right tone. Impeachment is a deadly serious remedy to a real abuse of office. Already we have activists saying we should impeach Trump for having policies that are different than those enacted by Obama. That is not why we have impeachment. That is why we have elections.
American government is broken but it isn’t broken because Trump is an idiot. It is broken because Congress is owned by a relatively small group of corrupt insiders who use elected officials like personal employees to provide them specific services and to keep the electorate entertained by exploiting cultural war differences. Fix corruption in politics. Pull the money out of the election process. That will make Congress members actually accountable to the voters and a President like Trump won’t be tempted not to faithfully enforce the laws.
Yes, she did try her very best to ignore the criminality of Trump/Pence in the same way she ignored the criminality of Bush/Cheney.
She has finally been forced by public pressure and the majority of her caucus into doing her job.
That was a good interview, she’s out there undermining the GOP/Trump Talking Point about 2016 and how the Dems have been trying to impeach Trump since January 2017.
Nancy has been vocal about not wanting impeachment, which has Dems attacking her. Now she gets to use it to say, I really didn’t want to do this but, he forced my hand, Trump’s criminal acts made it impossible not to impeach.
