Article snippet: Speaker MORE could have the paradoxical effect of building support for that very step. Pelosi and Democratic leaders this week launched a series of aggressive investigations into the myriad allegations facing the president, many stemming from special counsel MORE's recently released report on Russia's 2016 election interference. The strategy is designed, in part, to dampen the growing calls for impeachment — a move Pelosi considers premature — by assuring her troops that party leaders have no intention of letting Trump off the hook. The Catch-22 for Democratic leaders is that the more dirt the investigations uncover, the louder the impeachment drum will sound. “There is the likelihood that as the hearings are being conducted, impeachment fervor may grow, because people are getting information,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), who supports Pelosi's cautious approach to impeachment, said Tuesday by phone. “But that's organic. It's the natural flow of things.” For Pelosi, the strategy is on brand. The Speaker frequently pulls a page from Abraham Lincoln, arguing that “public sentiment is everything.” And she and her top lieutenants were all on Capitol Hill in 1998 when Republican leaders moved forward with impeaching former President Clinton without the support of either the public or Democrats in Congress — and suffered the consequences politically. Pelosi and her leadership team are fighting to avoid the same mistake, frequently noting that impeachment without GOP b... Link to the full article to read more