Blog 1.5 Congress and POTUS

1. Nancy is the Speaker of the House. 
2. Alleged Trump engaged in an improper conversation with a foreign leader was made public last week. 
3. Congress should push to amend the Justice Department’s guidance that says a sitting president cannot be indicted by passing a law that makes the procedure for indictment explicit. “A president should be indicted, if he’s committed a wrongdoing — any president,” Pelosi said.
4. Nancy Pelosi did put her support behind current investigations being carried out by various House committees, saying Congress has a duty to abide by “the facts and the law.” She said that the investigations have been stymied by the executive branch’s lack of cooperation and by the White House’s declarations of executive privilege, arguing that both are simply more evidence that new laws are needed. 
5. Pelosi said that this case already reveals at least one violation of the law, because Joseph Maguire, the director of national intelligence, declined to relay the whistleblower’s complaint to Congress, as is required by law.
6. Adam Schiff is the House Intelligence Committee chair. 
7. Moderate Democrats and those representing swing districts have warned the speaker that moving forward on impeachment would alienate their voters.
8. American voters, including Democratic voters, are themselves divided on the subject of impeachment. According to recent polling by Politico and Morning Consult, 37 percent of voters support impeachment, while half outright oppose it. Predictably, the support comes nearly entirely from Democratic voters: about 70 percent of Democratic respondents said they support impeachment proceedings, while just 6 percent of Republican voters said the same.