Impeachment inquiry: Nadler may add Mueller counts against Trump Judiciary chair cites ‘real and present danger to … next election’
Committee to hold critical hearing on Monday
Committee to hold critical hearing on Monday
The Democratic chairman of the House judiciary committee, Jerry Nadler, has not ruled out including evidence from the Mueller report in articles of impeachment against Donald Trump that could be published as early as next week.
On Sunday, Nadler told CNN’s State of the Union evidence showed the president’s conduct during the Ukraine scandal was part of “a pattern”, indicating “that the president put himself above this country several times”.
On Monday Nadler’s committee will hold a critical hearing. Democratic and Republican lawyers from the House intelligence committee will testify following a months long investigation of the president’s behavior during the Ukraine scandal.
Nadler has suggested that after the hearing concludes his committee will work quickly to publish impeachment articles, which could be voted on before Christmas.
The scope of these articles has been the center of significant debate in the Democratic party, with a number of centrists elected in swing districts keen to keep the focus on Ukraine rather than broader evidence included in
the Mueller report into Russian election meddling in 2016, which documented evidence of attempted obstruction of justice by the president.
While Nadler made no commitment to including evidence from Mueller, he argued on CNN that Trump “sought foreign interference in our election several times both in 2016 and in 2020. That he sought to cover it up all the time. And that he continually violated his oath of office.
