10 things you need to know today: April 23, 2019

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1. Pelosi says no immediate plan to start impeachment proceedings

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told Democratic lawmakers in a rare Monday night conference call that the party's House leadership has no immediate plan to launch impeachment proceedings against President Trump. Pelosi said that before taking such dramatic steps after Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report, Congress' focus should be on conducting thorough investigations into Russian election interference and possible obstruction of justice by Trump. "This isn't about Democrats or Republicans. It's about saving our democracy," Pelosi said. Some Democrats said there was already ample justification for impeachment. Democratic presidential candidates were split. In a Monday event on CNN, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) backed impeachment. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont said he worried focusing on Trump and the Mueller report rather than issues facing ordinary Americans "works to Trump's advantage."

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.