In an appearance on CNN, primetime host Chris Cuomo asked Nadler: “If a head of a committee such as yours believes what you obviously believe, your duty in the Constitution is to start investigating to see if you have the facts for grounds for impeachment, and it is called an ‘impeachment inquiry.’ Is that what you are doing right now?”

“It is not necessarily called an impeachment inquiry. That’s a made-up term without legal significance. It is, however, what we are doing,” Nadler said.

“We have been very clear for the last several months in filings with the court, in public statements, in official statements in the committee that we are conducting an investigation with the purpose, among other things, of determining whether to report Articles of Impeachment to the entire House,” he continued.