Klobuchar backs impeachment proceedings 'beginning now'

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Klobuchar backs impeachment proceedings 'beginning now'


https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/14/klobuchar-impeachment-trump-1364990

By CAITLIN OPRYSKO

06/14/2019 08:19 AM EDT


Sen. Amy Klobuchar shifted further into the pro-impeachment camp, saying Friday she would support the House beginning proceedings to remove the president “beginning now.”

Klobuchar had previously been more ambivalent on the issue, as recently as several weeks ago reiterating that she saw impeachment as “one way to investigate and hold this administration accountable if the White House keeps stonewalling.”

But in an interview on CNN’s “New Day,” Klobuchar confirmed that she would back impeachment proceedings beginning immediately.

“I would support an impeachment proceeding beginning now, but I also understand they may be wanting to do investigations leading up to it and I think they should be given the time to do that,” she said, calling the move a “possibility” in the House.

The Minnesota Democrat is just the latest 2020 Democrat to back impeaching the president, and her shift comes days after Trump said in an interview he would likely accept dirt on a political opponent from a foreign national or government, and wouldn’t necessarily alert the FBI about it.

But while the senator said she had seen evidence that could lead to Trump’s impeachment, she emphasized that the House is on the right path with its investigations into Trump. She appeared hopeful that Hope Hicks, former White House communications director and one of Trump’s greatest confidantes, had agreed to testify behind closed doors to the House Judiciary Committee, where impeachment proceedings would initiate.


Still, she said, “the point is you have the obstruction of justice which I think you've seen a bit of again today with what he said about Don McGahn, but then you also have going on this interference in our election, where he is blatantly engaging in this and asking people to interfere in the election. And remember, it’s a foreign country that didn't do it with missiles or tanks but they did it with cyber warfare.”....................................................

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1. This is why impeachment need to start sooner and she needed to come out sooner...

The debates are close and it make impeachment just look like an 2020 jockeying ploy.


Better late than never

[spanone]

2. K&R...

[OrlandoDem2]

3. We should take to the streets for impeachment and for Congress to pass bills protecting our elctions

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4. knr

[colsohlibgal]

5. Absolutely

Not sure why Pelosi is apprehensive about getting the party started......I see it as a major help for 2020, not a hindrance, this would get info out in the open. As it is now they are blowing off court rulings, Subpoenas, stonewalling, we need their nefariousness out in the open. It should be go time Nancy!

I mean Trump is a guy who will at least face State charges once out of office, he will see prison at some point. But impeachment hearings will help us win in 2020, likely including the Senate....if we can convince lower tier candidates like Bullock to run for the Senate.

Time to take his country back. JFK wrote a book called “While England Slept” about the rise of Fascism in Europe prior to WW11, we don’t want a future book asking why Democrats slept too long.