But recent developments also sharpen the core questions at stake in the impeachment saga that are critical to the office of the presidency going forward and US democracy itself. Republicans dance on pin headsThe extreme political test posed to Republican lawmakers by the impeachment saga was on display on Sunday talk shows. "I hope this will be done with the seriousness that any impeachment proceeding deserves," Collins said, according to WABI television. Democratic Rep. Jim Himes of Connecticut suggested that the emergence of a second whistleblower suggested that the walls around Trump were beginning to crumble. I am deeply scared by the positioning that Republicans have chosen to take," Murphy said on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Source: CNN October 07, 2019 04:03 UTC