Asked if she has enough votes to impeach Trump, Pelosi said that she would let House lawmakers vote their conscience. Trump spent part of the day tweeting against the impeachment proceedings, but did not comment late on Monday. “I think there’s a lot of agreement,” US Representative Eliot Engel, the Democratic chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, told reporters as he exited Pelosi’s office. Centrist Democrats preferred to keep the impeachment articles more focused on Trump’s actions toward Ukraine. Representative Jerrold Nadler was blunt as he opened Monday’s hearing, saying: “President Trump put himself before country.”

Source: Taipei Times December 10, 2019 16:07 UTC