Democrats tied themselves to the mast on impeachment, and President Trump fires back by releasing the transcript of his call with the Ukrainian president.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

Man, oh man, a lot of news this morning. So we begin with the breaking news yesterday, which is Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, announcing that she has now opened an impeachment inquiry into the presidents of the United States.

Now, what does that mean practically?

The answer is pretty much nothing.

There are already several different committees in the House that were investigating the president.

Now she has just put them under the bigger umbrella of an impeachment inquiry.

In fact, there are some Democrats who are angry with Pelosi for not

actually having given them any additional power to go after the president. Nonetheless, this does

represent a marked shift in terms of Pelosi's own position on impeachment. It is now clear that

the House in all likelihood will end up impeaching Donald Trump. The Democrats do have a majority

there. There are already well over 200 Democratic Congress people who are in favor of impeaching President Trump. Nancy Pelosi announcing yesterday

that they are moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. Today, I'm announcing the House of

Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry. I'm directing our six

committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry.

The president must be held accountable.

No one is above the law.

And she continued by explaining that President Trump's actions here betrayed his oath of office.

Specifically, it is unclear what are the grounds for impeachment?

So there are three

possible grounds for impeachment that have been presented by Democrats and the media. Possible ground

number one, Trump is stymieing the whistleblowers. So remember, there's a member of the

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