Impeachment is seemingly growing on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
On Thursday morning, the House Intelligence Committee released a whistleblower report alleging President Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky put national security at risk. And as acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire testified about the whistleblower report, Pelosi delivered a solid burn to explain why she thought it was exceptionally incriminating for Trump.
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Pelosi went on to condemn Maguire's initial refusal to hand the whistleblower report to Congress' intelligence committees. "I think what the DNI did was broke the law," she said, spelling out what she thought the correct process would've been. Kathryn Krawczyk
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