Mueller report creates new headache for Pelosi

Pelosi, who has repeatedly downplayed the prospect of impeaching Trump, is spending the weekend reviewing Mueller’s findings with her committee leaders so they can lay out a response in a Democratic caucus conference call on Monday. “The legislative branch has the job of oversight of our democracy and we’ll exercise that,” Pelosi said Friday…

The House Judiciary Committee has jurisdiction over impeachment proceedings once a resolution authorizing an investigation into impeachable conduct clears the House Rules Committee, a panel under Pelosi’s thumb. But current House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., said on ABC Friday that “we’re not there” in terms of making the case to remove Trump from the Oval Office for collusion with Russians ahead of the 2016 election or obstruction of justice. Instead, Nadler said his focus was on information-gathering, first getting his hands on the unredacted Mueller report and then hosting a series of fact-finding sessions, starting next month with Attorney General William Barr.

“We have to hear from Mueller, ask him a lot of questions,” Nadler said, referring to a May 23 deadline he set for the special counsel to appear before his committee. “We have to hold hearings and hear from other people.”