DEMS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Senate Democrats said they were disturbed and had more questions about President Donald Trump’s conduct following former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony Thursday — but they weren’t ready to say he obstructed justice.
While their House counterparts have already started drawing up articles of impeachment, Senate Democrats danced around the obstruction of justice accusation, saying more needs to be uncovered in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe.
‘Look, we’re not there yet,’ California Sen. Dianne Feinstein told CNN. ‘And there shouldn’t be a rush to judgment. There’s a lot of work that has to be done.’
Comey testified Thursday that he believed Trump was directing him to drop the probe into his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, although he also said that Trump never told him explicitly to do so. Comey also testified he indirectly had his own memo of the conversation leaked in order to try to get a special counsel appointed.”
-Jeremy Herb and Lauren Fox, “Senate Democrats stop short of saying Trump obstructed justice,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, June 8, 2017 05:43pm