Hey, everyone. I'm David Chalien, the CNN political director, and this is the Daily DC.

Thanks so much for listening. Today on the podcast, Pelosi's Play.

This is a fascinating thing to watch. The Speaker of the House just completely use Donald Trump as a tool to help

unify her own caucus.

She does it with some great skill.

And Donald Trump is, I think, an unwitting co-conspirator at her efforts to help bring her caucus together,

just as there were some growing voices in, yes, a small minority of Democratic members of the

House who have called for impeachment.

But as that was growing and expanding beyond just the most progressive or a few members here

and there is precisely the moment that Donald Trump,

you know, walks out of the meeting, goes to the Rose Garden, goes on a tweet storm, says,

no legislating while there are investigations.

Well, that was it.

Nancy Pelosi then goes back to her caucus and says, we have him where we want him.

Why would we start an impeachment process right now that is a dicey political proposition

when we have the president in a place where we can take the argument to the American people

that he's sort of abdicating his responsibilities on legislating and continue our investigations which are yielding some fruit

in the courts, getting some favorable rulings. And because he picks a fight with Pelosi,

it helps her go back to her team and say, let's all get together here.

And that seems to be exactly what happened.

Because when Nancy Pelosi went before the microphones today and was asked a bunch of questions

about impeachment, she made it clear in one of her statements today that the Democratic

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