After being built up for months, former special counsel Robert Mueller's highly anticipated testimony does not appear to be the turning point that will take Democrats -- and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- down a path toward impeachment
That doesn't mean impeachment is off the table. House Democrats are now pivoting to their court cases in an effort to obtain the special counsel's grand jury evidence and force Mueller's key witnesses to testify, which they say will give them the information they need to make a decision on impeachment.
"It is a crossing of a threshold in terms of the public awareness of what happened," she said.But the speaker also added that she wasn't ready to move on impeachment yet."We want to have the strongest possible case to make a decision as to what path we will go down," the speaker said."The stronger our case is, the worse the Senate will look for just letting the President off the hook.
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