Walter Shapiro believes Mueller intended to break Democrats’ impeachment stalemate
Masked by careful legalistic language, the special counsel was speaking directly to Nancy Pelosi: the House can vote to impeach Trump
Unless they are on a secret Washington dinner party circuit, there are no hints that Robert Mueller and Nancy Pelosi are friends.
Sure, they overlapped 20 years ago with Mueller serving as US attorney for the northern district of California and Pelosi in her second decade representing San Francisco in Congress. And, like all prominent Washington public officials, they shared TV green rooms when Mueller was FBI director and Pelosi was on her first circuit as House speaker.