Article snippet: WASHINGTON — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, confronting a Democratic divide over the findings of the special counsel, urged her caucus Monday to hold off impeaching President Donald Trump for now, even as she denounced the “highly unethical and unscrupulous behavior” that she said had dishonored his office. Her comments, outlined in a letter to House Democrats on Monday and a subsequent conference call with them, seemed designed to increase support for the investigations already begun, rather than impeachment. But the conference call exposed the persistent divisions that Pelosi is trying to bridge, as several Democrats questioned the cost of not beginning the impeachment of Trump. The release last week of the report by special counsel Robert Mueller threw to Congress the fate of his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and Trump’s efforts to interfere with it. Some House Democrats are convinced that impeachment proceedings would be doomed to fall short of removal from office and therefore would only help the president politically. Others argue that failing to impeach would effectively signal to this president and his successors that serious misdeeds will be tolerated by a legislative branch fearful of political consequence. Pelosi tried to convince her colleagues that they have tools to hold Trump to account without impeaching him. Underscoring Pelosi’s approach, the Democrat-led Judiciary Committee announced as the call began that it had sub... Link to the full article to read more