Speaker Nancy Pelosi tamped down on impeachment talk Sunday, saying it would take a bipartisan swell of support to happen, in the wake of a fiery f-bomb dropped by freshman Democrat Rashida Tlaib, an anti-President Donald Trump lawmaker.
Pelosi told CBS News that anything impeachment related would have to wait for the report from special counsel Robert Mueller and need support from both sides of the aisle.
Impeachment 'would be depending on what comes forth from the Special Counsel's Office. If and when the time comes for impeachment, it will have to be something that has such a crescendo in a bipartisan way,' she said on CBS' 'Sunday Morning.'
Speaker Nancy Pelosi tamped down on impeachment talk Sunday
Her comments came after freshman Democrat Rashida Tlaib told a party hosted by MoveOn.org: 'We're going to impeach the motherf***er!'
House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat, was on the same message as Democratic leaders tried to move off the subject of impeachment
House Majority Whip Steny Hoyer, the number two Democrat, was on the same message as Democratic leaders tried to move off the subject of impeachment and delay anything until Mueller drops his report on Russia's role in the 2016 election and whether Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow.
'I don't think an impeachment process is inevitable. And that's not what we're focused on,' Hoyer told NBC's 'Meet the Press' on Sunday.
He added: 'I think the impeachment talks right now are distraction. We'll have to see what the Mueller report says.'
Democratic leaders were reportedly furious at Tlaib's remarks, which dominated the close of the party's first week back in power in the House of Representatives.
Tlaib dropped her F-bomb at the president during a party Thursday night hosted by the liberal group MoveOn.
Speaking in a dimly lit room, Tlaib told a cheering crowd that she had told one of her young sons: 'We're going to impeach the motherf***er!'
'And when your son looks at you and says, 'Mama look, you won. Bullies don't win,' and I said, 'Baby, they don't,' because we're gonna go in there and we're going to impeach the motherf****r,' Tlaib said.
When the video of her remarks surfaced online, she doubled down, refusing to apologize.
'I will always speak truth to power. #unapologeticallyMe,' Tlaib tweeted Friday.
Rashida Tlaib told supporters that 'we're going to impeach the motherf***er' about President Trump as she celebrated becoming the first Palestinian-American woman in Congress
Tlaib doubled down on Friday, refusing to apologize and citing a non-specific 'constitutional crisis' in claiming: 'we must rise'
'This is not just about Donald Trump,' she claimed. 'This is about all of us. In the face of this constitutional crisis, we must rise.' She didn't specify what constitutional crisis she was reacting to.
Democratic congressional leaders have been trying to cool down talk of impeachment by rank and file members and keep the focus on policy differences.
Pelosi's early reaction was to brush aside Tlaib's remarks.
She told an MSNBC audience Friday that she was 'not in the censorship business,' claiming Tlaib's words were no worse than Trump's typical vernacular.
'I probably have a generational reaction to it,' she said, adding: 'I'm not in the censorship business. I don't like that language, I wouldn't use that language, but I wouldn't establish language standards for my colleagues.'
Pelosi also claimed calling Trump a 'motherf***er' was 'nothing worse than the president has said.'
'I don't think we should make a big deal of it,' she declared.
Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney took umbrage with the idea that Trump has helped coarsen the public discourse
President Donald Trump brought up impeachment in his first meeting with Nancy Pelosi since she reclaimed the Speaker's gavel
Pelosi's office confirmed that impeachment came up – adding that Trump raised it in his opening remarks
But acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney took umbrage with the idea that Trump has helped coarsen the public discourse.
'I don't think anybody blames the president for the coarsening of the language,' Mulvaney said on CNN's 'State of the Union.'
'The president does use coarse language in private a lot with us,' he conceded. 'Many people do but no I don't think anybody blames the president for the coarsening of the language.'
Trump said Friday that Tlaib 'dishonored herself' and said her comments were 'disgraceful.'
He also said he had spoken to Pelosi about the incident when he met with Congressional leaders at the White House to discuss ways to end the partial government shut down.
'You can't impeach somebody that's doing a great job. That's how I view it,' he said.
He then recounted part of his meeting with Pelosi and other congressional leaders. 'I said why don't you use this for impeachment,' Trump said, referencing the shutdown. 'She said we're not looking to impeach you,' according to the president.
'I said, 'That's good, Nancy, that's good.' But you don't impeach people when they're doing a good job,' he continued.
'And you don't impeach people when there was no collusion because there was no collusion,' he added, returning to his repeated claims on Twitter and at prior press conferences.
Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill tweeted minutes after Trump spoke: 'In his opening comments at the meeting, President Trump brought up impeachment. Speaker Pelosi made clear that today's meeting was about re-opening government, not impeachment.'
His statement did not touch on Trump's claim that Democrats were not looking to impeach him.
Some Democrats are already making moves toward impeachment.
Hours after being sworn in on Thursday, Democratic Reps. Brad Sherman of California and Al Green of Texas reintroduced articles of impeachment against the president, something they pushed without success in the prior Congress.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy demanded that someone in the House Democratic Caucus 'stand up to' Pelosi for the sake of decorum
Rep. Rashida Tlaib and her family participated Thursday in a ceremonial swearing-in from Speaker Nancy Pelosi
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy was furious when spoke to journalists on Capitol Hill Friday about Tlaib's comments.
'How do you work with anybody if this is what they really have planned? That they go down into a place, they have the MoveOn, they think others aren't watching it, they're using foul language. They introduce that they just want to impeach the president. Over what basis? We have government shutdown right now. Where are their priorities?' he asked on Friday.
'We watched a brand new speaker say nothing to her. ... That action should not stand,' McCarthy vented.
'Somebody should stand up to her. She's the speaker. That individual sits in her caucus. I would hope if she wouldn't, others in her caucus would.'
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