Pressure is growing on top Democrats in Congress to start impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
According to the Washington Post, members of Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s leadership team -- as well as House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler -- are pressing the House Speaking to support an impeachment inquiry against Trump.
"This feels like a tipping point," said CNN host John Berman on Tuesday, commenting on the report.
"I think you’re right, I think there's a huge conversation going on inside the Democratic Party about this," said CNN's political director David Chalian.
"There is no doubt. I always think for Democrats it’s probably wrong to bet against Nancy Pelosi on getting to where she wants to get. She's proven to be a pretty strong leader of her caucus, but it just seems that the caucus is in this inexorable movement now towards a potential impeachment inquiry.
"My ears perked up when you interviewed Congresswoman Jackie Speier and she said that certainly she’s ready at the place for an impeachment inquiry and that it doesn’t necessarily mean getting an actual vote on impeachment on the House floor and launching a Senate trial," Chalian continued.
"That it could just be the laying out the facts that an impeachment inquiry can do for the American people and stop short of the impeachment vote because they know the political reality of that. That to me is an interesting middle ground."
