Mueller report creates new headache for Pelosi

Published April 20, 2019 12:39am ET



House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has a major problem on her hands after the release of the Mueller report — how to resist demands from her fractious caucus for President Trump to be impeached.

Pelosi, who has repeatedly downplayed the prospect of impeaching Trump, is spending the weekend reviewing Mueller’s findings with her committee leaders so they can lay out a response in a Democratic caucus conference call on Monday. “The legislative branch has the job of oversight of our democracy and we’ll exercise that,” Pelosi said Friday.

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