Okay, Nancy Pelosi just made a huge announcement.

The actions of the Trump presidency revealed the dishonorable fact of the president's betrayal

of his oath of office, betrayal of our national security, and betrayal of the integrity of

our elections.

Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an

official impeachment inquiry.

Andrew Prokop, Vox, we haven't had you on the show since yesterday.

How did this happen so fast?

You were just on telling me that Nancy Pelosi thought impeachment was a dead end political

loser.

That is what she has thought all year, but Nancy Pelosi is also a leader of her caucus

who can take her members' temperature and know where the party is going.

And what developed extremely quickly over the past 24 hours is a consensus among Democrats

that really this latest scandal about Trump and Ukraine was just a bridge too far.

That something had to be done and that the only real remedy they had was a more serious

impeachment effort.

And you mentioned yesterday on the show that the progressive wing of the party was putting

pressure on Pelosi.

Has that pressure expanded?

What really tipped the scales in the end was finally movement among a bunch of moderate

Democrats.

In particular, on Monday night, seven freshman Democrats with military backgrounds or intelligence

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