Democrats split on whether to include Mueller obstruction in articles of impeachment

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Democrats, as NBC News has reported, are considering one article of impeachment related to the Mueller report and obstruction of justice in addition to articles of impeachment directly related to Trump’s conduct toward Ukraine. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday that Democrats would proceed with drafting articles of impeachment.

Speaking with both NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “State of the Union” in interviews broadcast Sunday, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. would not commit to including evidence of obstruction contained in the Mueller report in the articles of impeachment, telling CNN, “We’re going to have to take a lot of considerations into account…

On the other hand, Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., a member of the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees, told reporters Thursday that “if we’re going to say that the president basically refusing to allow members of the administration to obey lawful subpoenas in the Intel investigation then why would we not take a look at the president doing the same thing during the Mueller investigation.”

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