Nancy Pelosi won't be satisfied with the Mueller report 'until we have a new president'


House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is retreating a little bit from her previous comments in which she seemed to dispel the idea of impeaching President Trump.
But in an interview with The Associated Press on Wednesday Pelosi appeared to be growing increasingly frustrated with how the aftermath of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into whether the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russian election interference in 2016 played out. Attorney General William Barr testified before a Senate panel on Wednesday, during which he said he believes "spying did occur" on the Trump campaign, reportedly possibly referring to a secret surveillance warrant the FBI obtained during that time to monitor campaign aide Carter Page.
In response, Pelosi told AP that Barr is "not the attorney general of Donald Trump. He's the attorney general of the United States." She went so far as to say that she didn't trust Barr, but she does trust Mueller — which is why she wants to see the full report of Mueller's investigation.
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When asked when Democrats would be satisfied with the results of the report, per AP, Pelosi said only "when we have a new president of the United States who is a Democrat." And while she did repeat that, at the moment, pursuing impeachment would be too divisive, she did change course slightly. While she previously told The Washington Post that impeachment could become a possibility if something "so compelling and overwhelming and bipartisan" was unearthed, she was a little more concrete on Wednesday, adding that after "seeing what we need to see" in the Mueller report it may be "imperative" that Trump be impeached.
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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.
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