House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls Mueller testimony 'historic' day: 'It is a crossing of a threshold in terms of the public awareness of what happened and how it conforms to the law or not.'
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday said her position on impeachment remained unchanged after former special counsel Robert Mueller testified about his investigation. She's not ruling out the prospect while maintaining focus on Democrats' ongoing investigations and legal battles with the Trump administration.
While he strongly reaffirmed his findings and defended the integrity of his investigation, the former special counsel answered many questions with one-word answers and declined to read aloud from the report -- denying Democrats the made-for-television moments they had hoped would bring the report to life.
Even some of the few members able to question Mueller said his testimony did not sufficiently compel them to back impeachment. "If you're looking for smoke signals form Speaker Pelosi, you didn't get very many today," Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif., an impeachment advocate, told ABC News."But my sense, just as one member, is that the caucus continues to shift in the direction of impeachment."
"The Mueller report -- in and of itself -- is insufficient evidence to walk to the Senate for a trial," Rep. Hank Johnson, D-Ga., a member of the Judiciary Committee opposed to impeachment, told ABC News."We can collect the evidence without declaring impeachment."
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