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Democratic leadership can't find its backbone on impeachment

"Do you think this is impeachable?" Chuck Todd, host of "Meet the Press," asked Rep. Jerrold Nadler about the findings in the report by special counsel Robert Mueller.

The congressman from New York took a dramatic pause before replying, "Yeah, I do. I do think this, if proven, if proven ... some of this would be impeachable, yes. Obstruction of justice, if proven, would be impeachable."

Within NBC's studio and outside it, this was greeted as news. Maybe in

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