Schiff: “We May Have Crossed The Rubicon”

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 17: U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), who is part of a Congressional delegation scheduled for an overseas trip, speaks to members of the media January 17, 2019 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC. In a letter to Speaker of the House Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), President Donald Trump announced the postponement of the trip to visit U.S. service members in Afghanistan, and a stop in Brussels to meet with NATO officials. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Ca) is one of the senior Democrats in Congress who has long been reluctant to pursue impeachment against Donald Trump. But the Ukraine’s story may be changing Schiff’s position. This morning, he told CNN:

“I have spoken with a number of my colleagues over the last week, and this seems different in kind. We may very well have crossed the rubicon here.”

Rep. Adam Schiff on Democrats continuous call for President Trump’s impeachment: “I want to make sure before we go down this road that we could persuade the public that this was the right thing to do” #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/cMnMe0Zgye
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) September 22, 2019

Another Democrat, who has long supported impeachment, tweeted the Democratic Party’s behavior is a bigger scandal than Trump’s.

At this point, the bigger national scandal isn’t the president’s lawbreaking behavior – it is the Democratic Party’s refusal to impeach him for it.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) September 22, 2019

Meanwhile, this is the verbatim of Donald Trump’s latest response to the Ukraine story.

Trump still dancing around what happened on call: “The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption.”
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) September 22, 2019