Jim Himes: Pelosi ‘Has Absolutely Not Taken Impeachment Off the Table’

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HIMES: "Well, first I would say Nancy Pelosi has not taken impeachment and will not take impeachment off the table. She's been very clear about the notion that this is a moment where we have to do the investigations, we have to tell the story that the average American might not have seen on page 379 of the Muller report, but she has absolutely not taken impeachment off the table and I don't think she ever would. Look, impeachment is a constitutional imperative under certain circumstances that have to do with legal lines, as well as members of Congress are. And you know, boy, you're asking interesting question there. You don't blame Nancy Pelosi for saying that, considering the President going into every election has tried to employ or said flat-out that a result that doesn't go his way would be illegitimate, that it would be rigged. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic, but in the next election, if the President loses, I would like to believe — and again, maybe I'm being overly optimistic — that people like the Supreme Court, that members of Congress, that senators would recognize that that is the split in the road, that is the fork in the road where the country is deciding whether we will remain a democracy or whether we will become some form of authoritarian dictatorship. There would be no ambiguity, there would be Fox News vs MSNBC in that moment and I guess I would like to believe that senators and judges and others would stand up for their democracy at great long last."